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AMERICA’S  MENACE 


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Popery  a  Political  System 


By 

C.  W.  BIBB 

National  Secretary  of 

The  American  Federation  of  Patriotic  Societies 


MINNEAPOLIS,  MINN, 

Published  by  C.  W.  BIBB  &  CO.,  612  Globe  Bldg. 


COPYRIGHT  1914,  BY  C.  W.  BIBB. 

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CHAPTER  I. 


DANGER  SIGNALS. 


“Except  ye  see  signs  and  wonders,  ye  will  not  believe.” 

When  our  sturdy  forefathers  purchased  our  heritage 
and  by  the  might  of  their  courage  and  patriotism  made 
liberty  the  chief  corner-stone  of  that  immortal  document 
within  whose  folds  is  written  that  priceless  jewel  which 
nurtured  and  promoted  those  principles  going  to  make  the 
greatest  and  grandest  civilization  under  the  broad  canopy 
of  heaven,  they  were  not  only  building  for  themselves,  but 
that  future  generations  might  enjoy  those  privileges  for 
which  they  were  ready  to  sacrifice  and  did  offer  up  their 
lives. 

^Oppression  had  provided  them  with  experiences  which, 
thUtigh  severe,  made  them  master  builders  and  enabled 
th|sn  to  frame  a  structure  purposed  to  serve  and  protect 
th|ir  progeny  from  those  foes  which  follow  in  the  wake  of 
despotism. 

’''This  structure  was  so  framed  that  every  man,  be  he 
rijfe  or  poor,  high  or  low,  great  or  small,  should  share 
in^ts  protection  and  go  in  and  out  unmolested  in  his  pursuit 
of  ^happiness  and  worship  his  Maker  after  the  dictates  of 
higr'own  conscience.  Across  the  broad  front  of  this  struc¬ 
ture  we  call  American  Independence  was  indelibly  stamped 
(in  letters  crimsoned  with  the  life  blood  of  patriots  and  heroes 
thj^words,  Liberty  of  Thought,  Free  Speech  and  a  Free 
Press.  Their  parting  message  to  us  enjoined  us  to  protect 
Hid*  cherish  this  heritage  and  preserve  inviolate  those  prin- 
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ciples  for  our  children  and  our  children’s  children  forever 
and  ever,  so  help  us  God. 

Since  that  day  brave  sons  of  those  patriots  have  counted 
their  lives  of  secondary  consideration  when  they  thought 
this  priceless  heritage  was  in  danger,  as  is  attested  by  the 
acres  of  gravestones  marking  their  last  resting-place.  To¬ 
day  the  very  sight  of  the  Stars  and  Stripes,  the  emblem  of 
our  heritage,  inspires  and  animates  us  until  millions  of  brave 
sons  of  patriots  would  follow  it  into  the  very  jaws  of  death. 
Those  principles  of  liberty  instilled  in  the  minds  of  our 
youth  during  schooldays  continue  to  ripen  into  desire  to 
cherish  and  protect  that  which  has  been  bequeathed  unto 
us.  Oppression  has  long  since  become  hateful  in  the  sight 
of  all  true  Americans,  millions  of  whom  hold  themselves 
in  readiness  to  lend  a  hand  in  setting  at  liberty  those  who 
are  oppressed  and  on  whom  the  heavy  hand  of  bondage  and 
oppression  rests. 

But  notwithstanding  all  this,  there  are  in  America  to¬ 
day  millions  of  our  citizens  loyal  and  true  who  do  not 
seem  to  realize  that  the  security  of  our  Stars  and  Stripes  is 
menaced  by  a  subtle  power  of  influence  which  is  daily 
gaining  ground  in  our  fair  America  and  whose  attacks  are 
W^ll  concealed  under  the  cloak  of  religion. 

In  this  land  of  free  speech  and  religious  toleration  only 
comparatively  few  seem  to  be  able  to  discern  even  the 
possibility  of  any  principality  or  power  daring  to  so  much 
as  contemplate  the  presumption  that  our  constitution  an(d 
institutions  are  not  impregnable  and  everlasting.  We  are 
aware  that  for  even  suggesting  an  approaching  danger  wc 
shall  be  called  an  alarmist,  if  not  a  much  more  forcefui 
name.  By  not  a  few  our  warning  will  be  branded  even  more 
severely,  but  ignorance  has  ever  been  a  poor  defense  behind 


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which  to  hide  in  time  of  trouble,  as  is  well  illustrated  in 
past  history.  Millions  have  suffered  because  of  ignorance, 
and  unless  all  signals  fail  the  end  is  not  yet.  We  disclaim 
any  desire  to  attack  men  in  these  pages.  Our  attention  is 
aimed  at  measures,  or  speaking  even  more  plainly,  question¬ 
ing  a  system  which  unfortunately  holds  within  its  grip 
multitudes  of  our  citizens  who  are  the  victims  of  birth  and 
early  education. 

Many  of  these  citizens  have  already  come  into  posses¬ 
sion  of  the  true  American  spirit  and  view  the  System  with 
a  suspicious  eye.  Many  are  becoming  wise  as  to- the  real 
purpose  of  this  ponderous  political  System  and  consequently 
losing  their  zeal  for  its  healing  balm. 

But  what  of  the  hundreds  of  thousands  of  immigrants 
who  are  gathered  up  by  the  System  and  sent  to  our  shores 
each  year  and  invested  within  a  few  months  after  their  ar¬ 
rival  with  that  sacred  franchise  our  native  sons  are  required 
to  go  into  training  twenty  and  one  years  to  become  com¬ 
petent  to  exercise? 

Can  any  sane  man  in  this  broad  land  fail  to  discern  d 
danger ?  Are  the  danger  signals  we  are  throwing  out  merely 
the  dream  of  an  idealist,  the  outburst  of  a  bigot,  the  over¬ 
flow  of  an  intolerant  mind?  “Except  ye  see  signs  and 
ponders  ye  will  not  believe/’  hence  we  invite  you  to  with- 
told  your  verdict  until  you  have  heard  the  evidence  set 
orth  in  the  chapters  which  follow. 


CHAPTER  II. 


WHAT  IS  AMERICA’S  MENACE? 


Beware  of  the  leaven  of  the  Pharisees.  Luke  xii:l. 

Volumes  have  been  written  by  our  idealists  suggesting 
remedies  for  the  evils  which  have  crept  into  our  social, 
economic,  political  and  commercial  life.  Sermons  have 
been  delivered  pointing  out  cures  for  our  lapses.  Serums 
have  been  sought  with  which  to  inoculate  and  heal  about 
every  sore  known  to  these  phases  of  a  rapidly  progressing 
civilization. 

Not  a  few  have  settled  the  question  by  striking  at  the 
besotted  conscience  of  the  saloon  as  our  greatest  peril. 
Heaven  knows  that  its  pathway  is  strewn  with  the  wail  of 
broken  hearts  and  wrecked  lives,  dwarfed  aspirations,  lost 
souls,  but  even  these  do  not  afford  a  correct  answer  to  the 
question,  WHAT  IS  AMERICA’S  MENACE? 

Another  charges  Mormonism  with  being  the  chief  of 
•sinners.  Well  may  we  take  cognizance  that  this  is  a  Menace 
too  serious  to  lightly  pass  over,  because  it,  too,  is  playing  the 
political  game  hiding  behind  the  cloak  of  religion,  but  it, 
with  all  its  sins,  is  not  America’s  Menace. 

From  the  pulpit  comes  the  answer  to  the  question  by 
branding  our  mad  rush  for  riches  and  luxury  as  the  one 
great  menace  to  America’s  progress :  but  this  merely  shows 
a  superficial  knowledge  of  the  subject.  ■ 

What  Then  is  America’s  Menace?  1 

1.  It  is  no  new  thing  under  the  sun.  It  is  not  the  prod-1 
uct  of  American  civilization.  It  is  not  the  child  of  our 


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national  constitution,  though  the  very  liberality  of  that 
document  may  in  a  measure  be  responsible  for  its  rapid 
growth  here  in  America.  Since  A.  D.  606,  when  political 
power  meant  as  much  or  more  than  it  does  today,  this 
menace  has  inflicted  itself  upon  governments  and  brought 
them  to  pay  tribute  to  its  insatiable  greed.  Emperors  and 
kings,  princes  and  potentates  have  bowed  the  knee  and 
kissed  the  toe  just  as  they  did  when  Caligula  ruled  ancient 
Rome.  Europe  trembled  more  than  once  when  this  same 
menace  wormed  itself  into  power  over  both  the  souls  and 
bodies  of  men  just  as  it  is  doing  in  England,  Canada  and 
America  today. 

Nay,  beloved  American,  our  country’s  menace  is  not 
the  child  of  modern  society — economic,  political,  or  other¬ 
wise.  It,  or  its  ancestors,  sapped  the  life  from  Babylonia, 
impoverished  Assyria,  blighted  Egypt,  overthrew  Rome, 
withered  Spain,  warped  southern  Europe,  despoiled  South 
America,  and  dwarfed  Mexico. 


2.  It  is  the  same  menace  that  wrecked  and  ruined  na¬ 
tions  in  the  past  centuries.  It  comes  to  us  clothed  in  the 
garb  of  RELIGION,  but  inwardly  it  has  the  parts  of  a 
tyrant.  It  comes  to  us  with  divine  unction  in  one  hand 
to  mollify  the  ills  of  humanity,  while  it  holds  in  the  other 
the  chains  to  bind  our  intellects  and  enslave  our  consciences. 
It  comes  to  us  as  a  direct  oracle  of  Almighty  God,  while 
under  the  cloak  is  the  carcass  of  Beelzebub.  It  comes  to 
us  as  the  vicegerent  of  the  Son  of  Man,  while  it  conceals 
the  implements  of  the  Inquisition  under  the  folds  of  its 
religious  garb. 

It  comes  to  us  as  the  embodiment  of  that  which  uplifts 
humanity  and  imbues  it  with  those  attributes  which  grow 
toward  a  high  civilization,  but  its  withering  blasts  warp  and 


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wither  those  nations  coming  under  its  consuming  spell.  It 
comes  to  us  as  the  consummation  of  philanthropic  zeal,  but 
the  almighty  dollar  is  its  God. 

It  comes  to  us  as  the  purifier  of  morals,  but  its  teach¬ 
ings  and  influence  have  debased  and  debauched  the  morals 
of  every  country  under  high  heaven  over  which  it  has  ex¬ 
erted  an  influence.  It  comes  to  us  as  the  purveyor  of  salva¬ 
tion  to  mankind,  but  it  has  proved  beyond  any  shadow  of 
doubt  that  it  is  a  gigantic  grafting  political  system  seeking 
to  acquire  power  in  order  to  acquire  wealth. 

It  comes  to  us  crying  peace  on  earth  and  good-will  to 
men,  while  it  is  alleged  that  it  is  now  training  more  than 
three  hundred  thousand  men  in  this  country  in  the  use  of 
firearms  in  order  to  be  ready  to  do  its  bidding.  It  comes 
to  us  as  the  promoter  of  intellectual  development  we  find 
fourteen  hundred  years  of  intellectual  development  we  find 
its  pupils  groveling  in  abject  ignorance,  squalor,  moral  de¬ 
gradation  and  superstition.  It  comes  to  us  as  the  direct 
successor  of  Peter  the  Apostle,  but  not  one  single  one  of  its 
rites  and  ceremonies  but  have  been  borrowed  from  its  an¬ 
cestors,  THE  PAGANS. 

It  comes  to  us  wholly  a  religious  system,  but  its  sole 
ambition  is  graft  and  political  power.  It  comes  to  us  in  all 
the  humility  of  the  Son  of  Man,  but  its  arrogance  and 
intolerance  have  caused  more  bloodshed,  its  hands  are  ! 
stained  with  more  crime  than  all  the  wars  of  history.  This  r,  \ 
is  our  MENACE  in  this  glorious  twentieth  century —  t  i 

It  Is  the  Roman  Catholic  Hierarchy.  \ 

3.  It,  like  its  ancestors,  comes  to  us  clothed  in  the  garb  1 
of  religion,  mark  you,  we  did  not  say  Christianity,  we  said  j 
religion.  Under  the  cloak  of  religion  not  a  few  of  the  most 
destructive  parasites  and  damnable  grafts  of  past  ages 


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have  injected  their  virus  into  the  corner-stones  of  govern¬ 
ments  and  poisoned  their  vitals  until  they  tottered  and  fell. 
It  was  while  hiding  behind  the  cloak  of  religion  that  the 
priestcraft  fatally  poisoned  Assyria,  Babylonia,  Egypt, 
Greece  and  Rome. 

In  almost  every  ancient  nation  where  religion  was  con¬ 
nected  with  the  state,  the  priesthood  veiled  the  former  with 
mystery  and  magic  to  better  hide  the  system  of  graft 
and  devilment  they  early  learned  to  practice  on  the  super¬ 
stitious  and  ignorant  masses. 

Bless  God,  Americans  are  taught  to  respect  religion  in 
any  and  all  forms.  Our  Constitution  throws  its  folds  of 
gracious  protection  about  all  alike,  be  they  true,  false  or 
otherwise.  While  this  is  true,  no  little  confusion  has  arisen, 
because  it  makes  no  distinction  between  Christianity  and 
other  forms  of  religion.  It  is  hardly  necessary  to  remind 
you  that  there  are  multitudes  of  religions  in  the  world. 
The  Aztec  offering  up  his  human  sacrifice  was  a  profoundly 
religious  being.  The  Cannibal  of  the  islands  was  deeply 
religious,  though  he  gave  expression  to  his  religious  senti¬ 
ments  by  eating  his  fellow  men.  The  people  of  India 
were  devoutly  religious,  yet  some  of  their  celebrations  were 
most  revolting  to  modern  civilization. 

{  This  leads  us  to  remark  that  a  foe  marching  under  the 
Vloak  of  religion  is  a  doubly  dangerous  combatant,  espe¬ 
cially  in  America,  where  we  are  taught  to  respect  all  and 
Avery  religion.  History’s  pages  are  red  with  the  blood  of 
Millions  who  have  been  martyrs  to  the  cause  of  religion. 

I  When  our  illustrious  forefathers  incorporated  the  clause 
li  our  constitution  granting  to  all  religions  liberty ,  little  did 
Ihey  suppose  they  were  opening  up  the  way  for  the  very  in¬ 
stitutions  they  sought  to  protect  to  be  menaced  by  a  so-called 


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religio-political  enemy.  The  framers  of  this  wondrous 
document  evidently  assumed  that  their  progeny  would  keep 
inviolate  an  inherited  patriotism  sufficient  to  forestall  any 
attempt  to  overstep  the  privileges  granted  by  the  incorpora¬ 
tion  of  such  a  plank  in  our  beloved  constitution.  Those  of 
us  who  know  the  true  situation  today  also  know  that  some 
of  us  have  been  recreant  to  a  sacred  trust  in  at  least  one 
respect. 

4.  We  have  already  reminded  you  that  a  religious  foe 
is  a  formidable  foe,  yet  after  all  not  half  so  dangerous  an 
antagonist  as  a  religio-political  combatant. 

To  illustrate  how  dangerous  the  latter  is,  one  has  but  to 
glance  back  to  Babylonia,  Assyria,  Egypt,  Rome.  These 

empires  and  kingdoms  fell  from  causes  within  rather  than 
from  without.  Under  cover  of  spiritual  consolation  the 
very  vitals  of  the  government  politic  were  consumed.  In 
other  words,  the  very  force  which  was  supposed  to  be  the 
purifying  and  uplifting  power,  bringing  the  secular  up 
toward  the  ideals  of  the  spiritual,  became  the  very  force 
that  injected  the  virus  which  destroyed  both. 

As  the  Son  of  Man  has  said:  “A  man’s  foes  shall  be 
they  of  his  own  household.”  Matt  x  :36. 

This  instrument  of  destruction  was  none  other  than  the  ' 
priestcraft,  acting  under  the  direction  of  a  leader  whose  aimj 
ever  tended  toward  secular  power  in  order  that  a  more  com-/ 
plete  control  and  a  surer  mode  of  gaining  riches  and  powtm 
might  result.  This  is  the  power  that  fastened  itself  at  thl  ( 
very  tap  root  of  ancient  nations  and  extracted  their  vital-, 
ity.  For  this  selfsame  cause  the  nations  of  Europe  were! 
for  centuries  handed  from  one  ruler  to  another,  all  the 
while  becoming  weakened  by  the  parasites  gnawing  at  their 


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vitals.  This  is  the  Menace  with  which  our  America  is 
threatened  this  day  and  hour. 

Rome  could  have  commanded  the  world  today  had  not 
her  priesthood  kept  in  ignorance  and  slavery  the  majority 
of  her  subjects.  The  aristocracy  reveled  in  luxury,  while 
the  lower  class,  which  constituted  the  majority,  were  too 
ignorant  to  be  of  service  when  dire  need  came. 

When  Pizarro  entered  Peru  he  and  his  army  would 
have  been  annihilated  in  a  day  had  not  the  spell  of  the 
priestcraft  already  sapped  the  ambition  of  the  people  and 
robbed  them  of  that  patriotism  and  manhood  necessary  to 
a  proper  defense  of  their  country. 

Little  Japan  defeated  greater  Russia  simply  because  the 
patriotism  of  the  Russian  soldier,  as  well  as  his  manhood, 

'  had  been  taken  from  him  by  the  priestcraft’s  power  over 
both  the  rulers  and  the  soldiers. 

From  what  we  have  said  it  is  plain  that  a  grafting 
priesthood  of  any  nation  in  any  age  is  a  destructive  insti¬ 
tution.  In  the  next  chapter  we  will  proceed  to  show  the 
workings  of  the  priesthood.  Thus  we  are  led  toward 
America’s  Menace,  about  which  we  shall  hear  more  in  subse¬ 
quent  chapters. 


CHAPTER  III. 


THE  PAPAL  HIERARCHY. 


“That  man  of  sin  be  revealed,  the  son  of  perdition ;  who  oppos- 
cth  and  exalteth  himself  above  all  that  is  called  God,  or  that  is  wor¬ 
shipped  ;  so  that  he  as  God  sitteth  in  the  temple  of  God,  shewing 
himself  that  he  is  God.”  II  Thess.  ii,  2-4. 

Having  now  come  to  our  subject  proper,  we  remark 
that  America  may  have  her  ailments ;  there  may  be  ruffles 
on  the  otherwise  still  waters  of  our  national  life;  social 
and  economical  conditions  may  seem  to  slip  out  of  balance 
now  and  then ;  capital  and  labor  may  appear  to  have  drifted 
apart  so  far  as  to  be  irreconcilable ;  the  tariff  may  continue 
a  political  mountain  too  difficult  of  ascent  for  our  politi¬ 
cians  easily  to  overcome;  but  all  these  ills  combined  are  as 
the  prick  of  a  pin  compared  to  the  one  real  menace  now 
threatening  our  American  institutions,  and  which  is  nothing 
more,  nothing  less  than 

The  Roman  Catholic  Hierarchy. 

This  is  a  plain  statement,  but  we  have  not  made  it  in 
haste,  neither  under  the  stress  of  any  unusual  emotion. 
Calmly  and  unreservedly  we  assert  that  the  Roman  Cath¬ 
olic  hierarchy  is  the  most  dangerous  menace  our  country 
now  faces  or  has  ever  faced  and  we  challenge  prelate,  priest, 
philosopher,  preacher  or  politician  to  disprove  our  state¬ 
ment.  A  quarter  of  a  century’s  study  of  the  subject  leads 
us  to  the  conclusions  embodied  in  the  above  statement.  All 
we  ask  is  the  withholding  of  your  verdict  until  the/testimony 
we  shall  produce  is  fully  considered. 


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1 — Our  Public  Schools. 

Every  Pope,  Cardinal,  Prelate,  Priest  and  Jesuit  is  duty 
bound  by  oath  and  otherwise  to  do  everything  within  his 
power  to  undermine,  damage,  cripple,  malign,  vilify,  boy¬ 
cott,  betray,  and  belittle  our  public  school  system  in  fair 
America.  On  every  possible  occasion  they  make  it  a  point 
to  hurl  their  denunciations  at  them  and  thus  far  not  one 
of  the  cowardly  newspaper  editors  dare  call  them  to  time 
for  their  treasonable  utterances  such  as  would  send  them 
into  exile  in  Russia  or  China.  The  hierarchy  had  so  muz¬ 
zled  and  censored  our  metropolitan  press  that  not  a  mother’s 
son  of  them  has  the  courage  to  peep  by  way  of  defence  of 
the  bulwarks  of  our  government.  For  fear  of  the  Papal 
Boycott  these  so  called  moulders  of  public  opinion  will  be¬ 
tray  their  country  and  become  partners  to  the  crime  of 
high  treason.  Awed  by  the  blunderbuss  of  Papal  puppets 
they  dare  not  open  their  mouths  in  defence  of  our  institu¬ 
tions.  We  challenge  the  reader  to  get  these  papers  to  print 
one  line  of  criticism  of  the  papal  system.1  Why ? 


1.  At  the  time  of  the  organization  of  the  American  Federation 
of  Patriotic  Voters  in  Chicago,  in  August,  1913,  the  Roman  Catholic 
Societies  were  holding  their  convention  in  Milwaukee.  We  care¬ 
fully  prepared  the  announcement  of  our  organization,  including  its 
(.  platform,  and  sent  it  by  a  most  reputable  citizen  of  Chicago  to  both 
the  City  Press  Association  and  the  Associated  Press.  Only  one 

I  Chicago  paper,  the  Tribune,  gave  us  as  much  as  one  line  of  recogni- 
■  tion,  neither  did  the  dailies  using  the  Associated  Press  news,  with 

very  few  exceptions,  and  they  evidently  let  our  report  slip  through 
Civhile  the  Jesuit  censor  was  at  lunch.  Notwithstanding  this,  all  the 
/  >apers,  both  in  Chicago  and  throughout  the  country,  were  filled 
jvith  the  folderol  of  the  Milwaukee  Papal  proceedings.  Do  you 
if  chink  the  public  press  is  not  muzzled  by  these  Jesuits?  If  you 
//think  it  is  not,  we  invite  you  to  attempt  to  get  one  line  in  any  one  of 

II  the  metropolitan  dailies  of  this  country  which  would  in  any  way 
yeast  reflection  on  the  Roman  Catholic  hierarchy. 

It  i 

I 


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The  henchmen  of  the  Papal  hierarchy  not  only  denounce 
our  public  schools,  but  they  have  been  and  are  today  doing 
their  utmost  to  coerce  their  church  members  into  sending 
their  children  to  the  Roman  Catholic  schools  under  severe 
penalty  of  withholding  the  so-called  sacraments  of  the 
Church ,  of  excommunication,  and  of  eternal  damnation 
without  even  granting  a  few  days'  layover  in  purgatory. 

Just  imagine,  if  it  be  possible  to  do  so,  a  pompous,  Irish, 
fat-jowled  priest  who  has  sworn  his  first  allegiance  to  a 
mummified  Italian,  publicly  denouncing  the  very  palladium 
of  this  grand  and  glorious  government  of  ours.  Ye  gods, 
it  requires  a  wide  stretch  of  the  imagination  to  come  to  such 
a  state  of  mind. 

These  traitors  tell  their  congregations  that  our  public 
schools  turn  out  only  thieves  and  murderers,  that  they  are 
ungodly,  that  they  are  damnable.  They  froth  and  foam, 
prate  and  prance,  fume  and  fret  from  day  to  day  because 
we  Americans  insist  on  taxing  ourselves  for  the  main¬ 
tenance  of  these  great  safeguards  of  our  government.  Their 
aim  is  to  disrupt  our  government  and  step  in  and  get  the 
balance  of  power.  They  also  know  that  they  dare  not  hope 
to  hold  the  oncoming  generations  of  Papists  with  our  sys¬ 
tem  of  education  uncovering  the  polluted  carcass  of  their 
damnable  system. 

These  traitors  have  gone  so  far  as  to  demand  a  division! 
of  our  school  fund  to  support  their  Papal  schools,  that  thd 
Romish  catechism  be  the  sum  and  substance  of  the  curri-! 
culum,  as  has  obtained  in  Spain,  Italy  and  Portugal  foil 
fourteen  centuries.2  1 


2.  In  several  states  the  Papal  puppets  have  already  attempte 
to  get  bills  passed  by  the  state  legislatures  legalizing  the  division  o 
the  school  funds  so  that  the  Roman  Catholic  hierarchy  may  get  it 


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Every  American  citizen  knows  to  what  extent  we  are 
dependent  upon  the  correct  training  of  our  youth  in  order 
that  our  government  may  be  supported  and  our  civilization 
progress.  From  Pope  to  priest,  the  Papal  hierarchy  knows 
the  same  thing.  They  know  more  than  this.  They  know 
that  the  knowledge  imparted  to  the  youth  in  our  public 
schools  has  a  tendency  to  cause  them  to  think  bidepend- 
ently,  to  cultivate  individuality ,  to  imbibe  the  desire  for 
knowledge  and  enlightenment,  and  that  this  is  the  death 
knell  of  the  Papacy,  whose  chief  asset  is  the  ignorance  and 
credulity  of  the  masses.  If  the  reader  for  a  moment  doubts 
this  statement  we  need  only  to  remind  you  that  there  is  not 
a  country  under  the  broad  canopy  of  heaven  where  the 
masses  became  a  thinking  people  that  popery  has  not  gone 
backward.  This  is  a  hard  saying,  but  we  challenge  any  pre¬ 
late  or  priest  to  disprove  it.  One  but  has  to  glance  at  Italy, 
France,  Spain  and  Portugal  for  proof  of  our  assertion.* * 3 

slimy  hand  in  our  public  treasury  to  satisfy  its  insatiable  greed  and 
keep  up  its  own  schools  to  pauperize  and  Romanize  our  country,  as 
she  has  done  in  Portugal  and  South  America,  where  illiteracy  and 
superstition  are  the  chief  characteristics.  So  bold  have  these  Jesuits 

become  that  they  have  a  so-called  Protestant,  one  traveling  over  the 
country,  publicly  advocating  this  division  and  declaring  our  system 
of  education  is  a  failure.  This  fellow,  it  is  alleged,  is  a  Jesuit  in  the 
employ  of  this  infamous  system,  though  claiming  to  be  a  Protestant 
that  he  may  cover  up  his  real  designs. 

3.  At  the  Papal  convention  at  Milwaukee,  in  August,  1913,  an 
appeal  was  made  to  President  Woodrow  Wilson  and  to  congress  to 
use  these  high  offices  to  check  the  so-called  persecution  of  priests 
and  bishops  by  the  government  of  Portugal.  Why  are  the  Portu¬ 
guese  hounding  these  Vampires  “As  wild  animals ?”  The  Portu¬ 
guese  are  Roman  Catholics;  no  one  can  claim  the  interference  of 
heretics,  because  Portugal  is,  comparatively  speaking,  wholly  Roman 
Catholic.  It  therefore  cannot  be  said  to  be  a  religious  war.  It  is  the 
awakening  of  minds  beginning  to  think.  As  the  scales  fall  from 
their  eyes,  they  see  the  deviltry,  deceit  and  debauchery  of  the  priests 
and  bishops,  and,  at  the  risk  of  anathemas  and  damnation,  they  are 
expelling  these  parasites  from  the  country.  God  bless  the  plucky 
Portuguese. 


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Today  four  millions  of  Polish  people  in  this  country 
are  practically  in  open  revolt  because  they  have  come  to 
taste  the  sweets  of  enlightenment.  The  threatened  excom¬ 
munication,  the  anathemas,  the  railings  of  priests  and  arch¬ 
bishops  are  inadequate  to  coerce  them  into  that  obedient 
subjection  demanded  of  the  Hierarchy.  These  people  have 
come  to  us  in  order  to  escape  the  oppression,  the  greed 
and  the  graft  of  that  same  damnable  system  in  the  father- 
land.  They  claim  to  have  contributed  two  hundred  mil¬ 
lions  of  dollars  for  property  in  this  country  to  which  the 
avaricious  Papal  hierarchy  holds  the  title ,  that  they  con¬ 
tribute  over  forty  millions  of  dollars  annually  into  the 
coffers  of  the  System  to  be  used  in  supporting  the  Papal 
henchmen  in  questionable  luxury  while  they  groan  under 
the  heavy  hand  of  Middle  Ages  oppression.4 

Conceive,  if  you  can,  our  American  school  system 
brought  under  the  supervision  of  the  priests  of  Rome.  Un¬ 
thinkable!  Ye  Gods!  Just  stop  a  moment  and  consider 
what  this  would  mean.  Possibly  you  have  not  time,  hence 
we  will  illustrate  what  it  would  mean. 

In  the  first  place  it  would  mean  that  from  sixty  to  ninety 
per  cent  of  our  youth  would  be  classed  as  illiterates  and 
about  the  same  per  cent  illegitimate,  as  has  obtained  in 
every  country  over  which  popery  has  usurped  the  prerog¬ 
ative  of  educating  the  young.  Look  at  Italy  after  twelve 

4.  Mr.  Michael  Kurszka,  editor  of  the  Kuryer  Polski,  Mil¬ 
waukee,  Wis.,  the  leading  Polish  paper  of  this  country,  has  suffered 
imprisonment,  boycott,  numerous  lawsuits  and  public  denunciations 
at  the  hands  of  Papal  puppets  because  he  had  the  grit  and  grace  to 
champion  the  cause  of  four  millions  of  his  countrymen,  whom  he 
is  attempting  to  rescue  from  the  clutches  of  an  avaricious  system. 
This  great  liberator  is  now  seeking  relief  in  the  courts  and  has  a 
suit  against  the  system  for  $100,000  damages,  and  has  come  out  of 
the  legal  muddle  the  victor,  because  he  had  the  goods  and  cot  d 
and  wanted  to  deliver  the  same,  '  ^ 


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hunured  years  of  Papal  instruction.  Look  at  Mexico,  South 
America,  Cuba,  and  the  Philippines  after  four  hundred 
years  sitting  at  the  feet  of  the  Gamaliel  of  the  Papacy. 
Would  you,  fellow  American,  care  to  trust  your  children  to 
such  a  system  for  their  education?  In  order  to  set  this  the 
plainer  before  you,  we  invite  you  to  pay  careful  atten¬ 
tion  to  the  following  comparison  of  the  results  of  our  pub¬ 
lic  school  system  of  education  and  the  system  of  Roman 
Catholic  education.  Notwithstanding  Archbishop  Gibbons’ 
futile  attempt  in  his  Faith  of  our  Fathers  to  deny,  these  stat¬ 
istics  stand  out  as  a  living  condemnation  of  Popery’s  at¬ 
tempt  to  fit  the  youth  to  be  full-fledged  citizens,  though  they 
may  be  first-rate  Roman  Catholics. 

Roman  Catholic  Countries  Illiteracy 

Austria  . . 39  per  cent 

Hungary  . 42 

Italy,  Upper  . 53 

Italy,  Lower . 74 

Portugal  . 82 

Spain  . 63 

Ireland  . : . 52 

Average,  58%. 

Now  Compare  Protestant  countries  and  note  the  dif¬ 
ference. 

Germany  . Less  than 

Denmark  . . . 

Norway  and  Sweden . 

England  and  Wales . 

Scotland  . . 

United  States,  including  In¬ 
dians,  Negroes  and  foreign¬ 
ers  and  Papists .  13 


n 


n 


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1  per  cent 
1 
1 
9 


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ii 


ii 


ii 


ii 


ii 


91 


11 


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AMERICA’S  MENACE 


Illiterates  per  100  Population 
United  States,  including  Indian,  Negro,  Foreign  and 


Papist  . 13 

Canada,  Lower  Canadians  are  Papal . 23 

Venezuela,  400  years  of  papal  schools . 90 

Brazil,  ”  ”  ”  ”  ”  84 

Chili,  ”  ”  ”  ”  ”  70 

Peru,  ”  ”  ”  ”  ”  95 

Mexico,  ”  ”  ”  ”  ”  93 


These  figures  tell  volumes,  and  we  challenge  any  statis¬ 
tician  to  refute  them.  Any  moderately  well-informed  per¬ 
son  must  admit,  after  looking  over  the  countries  under  the 
domination  of  Popery,  that  the  statistics  we  give  are  in  line 
with  conditions  in  these  countries. 

If,  then,  such  a  system  is  unfit  for  your  children,  it  is 
no  more  fit  for  the  children  of  Romanists,  whose  parents 
are  coerced  by  threats  and  otherwise  to  patronize  these 
schools,  though  the  State  Superintendent  of  the  Minnesota 
schools  is  quoted  by  a  recent  newspaper  as  saying  the 
parochial  schools  “are  entirely  satisfactory.” 

A  recent  issue  of  the  Baptist  Advance  quotes  Ex-presi¬ 
dent  Elliot  of  Harvard  as  saying  that  there  is  not  one  “Ro¬ 
man  Catholic  college  in  the  United  States  that  can  qualify 
a  student  to  enter  the  freshman  class  of  Harvard.” 

Notwithstanding  this,  and  as  we  have  already  said,  from 
pope  to  priest  all  are  working  as  only  Jesuits  can  work  to 
wreck  our  school  system  and  set  up  that  system  which  has 
withered  and  warped  Italy,  Spain,  France,  Portugal,  South 
America,  Mexico  and  the  islands  of  the  sea.  We  have  set 
forth  the  situation  just  as  it  is.  We  face  it  today,  and  in 
it  face  the  most  deadly  menace  to  our  fair  America. 


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Let  us  take  the  American  continent  and  you  will  easily 
get  the  force  of  our  contention.  Of  the  122,263  illiterate 
persons  in  Massachusetts,  108,365  were  foreign  born;  ap¬ 
proximately  20%  of  this  foreign  born  element  are  French 
Canadians  and  about  55%  are  Irish.  Hence  it  appears 
that  quite  three-fourths  of  the  State’s  Illiterates  are  Roman 
Catholic  and  the  product  of  parochial  schools. 

The  United  States  government  is  expending  millions  of 
dollars  per  annum  to  hold  the  Filipinos  for  the  Papal  hier¬ 
archy  to  fleece  them  of  their  substance,  their  freedom,  their 
manhood,  their  intellect,  their  aspirations,  in  order  to  make 
them  good  Papists.  Is  it  any  wonder  that  Cardinal  Gib¬ 
bons  should  object  to  Philippine  independence?  For  four 
hundred  years  Popery  taught  this  unfortunate  nation  of 
Filipinos,  and  when  we  found  them  they  were  practically 
on  the  level  with  the  brute  and  all  members  in  first-class 
standing  in  the  Holy  Mother  Church.  Seventy-five  per  cent 
of  the  population  of  Spain  cannot  read  or  write.  Thirty 
thousand  towns  and  villages  have  not  even  a  pretense  for 
a  school  to  teach  the  youth,  and  all  this  after  fourteen  cen¬ 
turies  of  Roman  Catholic  education. 

“In  Ireland,  where  the  Romish  Church  is  dominant, 
this  same  record  is  repeated,  as  in  other  Catholic  nations. 
In  European  countries  where  Protestantism  is  taught  there 
is  but  one  out  of  every  ten  that  cannot  read  and  write,  but 
in  the  same  countries,  where  Catholicism  has  absolute  sway, 
there  is  but  one  out  of  every  125  that  can  read  and  write. 

“In  six  leading  Protestant  countries  of  Europe  there 
are  315  inhabitants  to  every  newspaper  or  magazine  pub¬ 
lished,  while  in  six  Roman  Catholic  countries  in  Europe 
there  is  but  one  newspaper  to  every  2,715  people. 

“It  is  estimated  that  at  least  seven-eighths  of  the  twenty 


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million  inhabitants  in  Spanish-America,  which  consists  of 
the  countries  of  Mexico,  Cuba,  Central  America,  and  the 
north  and  west  parts  of  South  America,  are  unable  to  read, 
and  in  Mexico  alone,  90  per  cent  of  the  inhabitants  can¬ 
not  read  nor  write,  neither  do  they  know  their  alphabet: 
thus  you  can  see  what  Roman  Catholicism  does  for  the  coun¬ 
tries  which  she  controls.” 

Mr.  Bernard  Fresenborg,  who  was  thirty  years  a  priest 
of  Rome,  sums  up  the  subject  as  follows : 5 

“In  Ecuador  the  Catholic  Church  has  such  a  complete 
hold  upon  the  inhabitants  that  they  will  not  allow  Protes¬ 
tantism  taught,  and  the  consequence  of  her  tyranny  is  that 
out  of  every  one  hundred  children  horn  in  that  country, 
seventy-five  are  bastards  or  illegitimate  and  have  no  idea 
of  their  father,  and  the  immorality  of  the  priestcraft  is  so 
vile  that  their  actions  are  absolutely  passed  over  without 
notice,  and  there  is  scarcely  a  single  priest  to  be  found  in 
that  country  but  is  the  father  of  from  ten  to  twenty-five 
and  thirty  children :  but  still  the  Roman  Church  continues 
to  forbid  her  priests  to  wed,  when  they  know  full  well  that 
celibacy  in  the  Catholic  Church  is  the  cause  of  all  of  this 
degeneracy.” 

This  state  of  affairs  is  not  confined  to  Ecuador  alone, 
but  the  same  state  of  affairs  exists  throughout  the  length 
and  breadth  of  all  Catholic  nations  which  are  completely 
under  the  power  of  the  Pope. 

Italy  for  instance,  which  is  the  home  of  the  Pope  and 
which  has  been  the  home  of  the  Catholic  Church  since  the 
beginning  of  her  abominations,  is  one  of  the  most  immo¬ 
ral,  illiterate  and  degraded  countries  that  ever  besmirched 
the  face  of  the  earth.” 


5.  Thirty  Years  in  Hell,  pp.  103-6.. 


AMERICA’S  MENACE 


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The  first  lesson,  says  Mr.  Fresenborg,  that  a  Catholic 
child  is  taught  is  “hate,”  and  that  lesson  is  directed  at 
Protestantism :  therefore,  is  it  any  wonder  that  the  educa¬ 
tion  of  Catholicism  only  reaches  out  far  enough  to  hood¬ 
wink  the  student  and  does  not  elevate  him  or  her  above  the 
festering  mess  which  surrounds  it?  We  want  to  repeat  the 
statement  that  the  Roman  Catholic  Church  does  not  want 
to  educate  anybody,  nor  will  it  do  so,  where  it  is  not  under 
the  pressure  of  Protestant  influence.  However,  the  Amer¬ 
ican  people  demand  figures  and  facts  before  they  will  be 
convinced ;  so  as  further  evidence  of  the  truthfulness  of 
what  we  are  telling  you,  we  propose  to  quote  from  a  re¬ 
port  of  the  minister  of  education  in  Italy,  made  some  few 
years  ago.  This  report  is  true  in  every  particular,  and 
bear  in  mind  that  this  minister  of  education  was  a  Catholic 
himself.  The  report  follows  : 

“Of  every  1,000  males  in  the  province  of  Lombardy 
only  539  were  able  to  read,  and  461  did  not  even  know 
their  letters.  Of  every  1,000  females' only  426  could  read, 
and  574  could  not  read,  neither  did  they  know  their  let¬ 
ters.” 

“In  Naples  and  Sicily,  out  of  every  1,000  males,  only 
165  were  able  to  read  and  835  could  not,  and  out  of  every 
1,000  females,  only  62  could  read  and  938  could  not  read 
and  did  not  know  their  alphabet.  Taking  this  report,  you 
will  find  that  out  of  every  100,  only  about  10%  were  able 
to  read.” 

In  1864,  out  of  21,000,000  people,  only  3,500,000  could 
read  and  write,  and  the  rest  did  not  know  their  alphabet, 
and  today  Spain,  another  country  which  is  completely 
dominated  by  the  power  of  Rome,  has  a  population  of  igno¬ 
rant  dupes,  as  is  shown  by  the  Madrid  Herald  in  one  of  its 


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issues  of  November,  1913,  and  in  which  the  editor  says  that 
out  of  19,000,000  population,  fully  twelve  millions  can 
neither  read  nor  write,  and  thirty  thousand  towns  in  Spain 
have  no  schools  for  the  instruction  of  the  youth.” 

Every  American  citizen  should  calmly  ask  himself  this 
question:  Why  is  it  the  papal  hierarchy  is  so  opposed  to 
our  public  schools f  If  they  be  ungodly  as  they  claim,  then 
why  is  it  that  in  each  city,  town  and  hamlet  the  System  is 
so  earnestly  endeavoring  to  get  Irish  papists  on  the  school 
board?  Why  take  the  Bible  out  of  the  Schools?  Why  is 
it  the  priests  are  pussy-footing  about  to  get  papists  as  teach¬ 
ers  of  our  schools?  Is  it  because  they  hope  to  purify  them? 
Is  it  because  they  want  the  Romanists  to  have  positions  to 
earn  money  so  they  can  graft  them?  Is  it  because  they 
think  they  can  head  off  that  part  of  history  which  criticizes 
the  black  deeds  of  the  System?  Is  it  because  they  think 
there  may  be  an  occasional  opportunity  to  inject  bits  of 
the  catechism? 

IF  IT  BE  NOT  FOR  ONE  OR  MORE  OF  THESE 
REASONS,  THEN  WHAT  IS  THE  REASON?  Be  the 
reason  what  it  may,  it  is  high  time  honest  loyal  Americans 
were  coming  alive  to  the  situation.  Think  of  seventy-five 
per  cent  of  the  teachers  in  the  public  schools  of  Chicago 
being  Romanists.  Do  you  for  one  moment  suppose  that 
this  is  a  mere  “happenstance  ?”  Chicago  is  by  no  means  sev¬ 
enty-five  per  cent  Roman  Catholic.  Not  one  quarter  of  the 
population  are  papists.  Why  worm  these  females  into 
our  American  institutions,  when  we  all  know  that  in  the 
secret  confessional,  the  Irish  priests  are  exacting  every¬ 
thing  that  even  savors  of  liberty  of  thought  and  action? 
Brother  American,  we  want  you  to  answer  this  question. 


AMERICA’S  MENACE 


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Is  It  Not  Time  to  Think? 

If  you  suppose  we  are  overstating  the  case  we  invite 
your  careful  consideration  to  what  the  Hierarchy  and  its 
priests  and  editors  think  of  our  public  schools.  We  urge 
you  to  digest  these  divinely  inspired  anathemas  and  then 
tell  us  if  we  are  unduly  exercised  about  the  subject.  Re¬ 
member  this  tribe  of  traitors  is  merely  voicing  the  infallible 
decrees  of  the  Vatican  at  Rome.  We  will  first  call  your 
attention  to  the  Syllabus  of.  Pope  Pius  IX  issued  in  De¬ 
cember,  1864,  and  from  which  is  taken  these  excerpts: 

I.  The  state  has  not  the  right  to  the  exclusive  direc¬ 
tion  of  the  public  schools. 

II.  The  Catholic  Church  has  the  right  to  interfere  in 
the  discipline  of  the  public  schools,  and  in  the  choice  of  the 
teachers  for  those  schools. 

III.  The  Church  has  the  right  to  deprive  the  civil  au¬ 
thority  of  the  entire  government  of  the  public  schools. 

IV.  That  the  public  schools  open  to  all  children  for 
the  education  of  the  young  should  be  under  the  control  of 
the  Catholic  Church,  should  not  be  subject  to  the  civil  pow¬ 
ers,  not  made  to  conform  to  the  opinion  of  the  age. 

V.  Education  outside  the  control  of  the  Roman  Cath¬ 
olic  Church  is  a  damnable  heresy. — Syllabus,  1864,  Articles 
45.46-47-48. 

2 —  In  a  lecture  at  the  Horticultural  Hall,  Boston,  on 
February  13,  1876,  Bishop  McQuade  said: 

“The  state  has  no  right  to  educate,  and  when  the  state 
undertakes  the  work  of  education  it  is  usurping  the  pow¬ 
ers  of  the  church.’’ 

3 —  The  Catholic  World  for  April,  1870,  and  which  is 
considered  one  of  the  greatest  papers  of  the  Papacy,  is 

quoted  as  follows : 


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“We  do  not  indeed  prize  as  highly  as  some  of  our  coun¬ 
trymen  seem  to  do  the  simple  ability  to  read,  write  and 
cipher.  The  best  ordered  and  administered  state  is  that  in 
which  the  few  are  well  educated  and  led,  and  the  many  are 
trained  to  OBEDIENCE,  are  willing  to  be  directed,  con¬ 
tent  to  follow,  and  do  not  aspire  to  be  leaders.  We  believe 
the  peasantry  in  old  Catholic  countries  two  centuries  ago 
were  better  educated,  although  for  the  most  part  unable 
to  read  and  write,  than  are  the  great  body  of  American 
people  today.” 

4 —  Priest  Walker  of  New  York  is  one  of  his  so-called 
sermons,  said:  “I  would  as  soon  administer  the  sacrament 
to  dogs  as  to  Catholics  (no  doubt  it  would  do  the  dogs  quite 
as  much  good)  who  send  their  children  to  the  public 
schools,  for  the  public  schools  are  the  nurseries  of  vice, 
and  are  godless  schools,  and  they  who  send  their  children 
to  them  cannot  expect  the  mercy  of  God.” — Harper’s 
Weekly,  March  14,  1875. 

5 —  “I  do  not  consider  that  we  are  doing  our  duty  as 
American  citizens,  to  ourselves,  or  to  our  children  in  per¬ 
mitting  such  a  system  of  public  schools  to  exist  as  we  have 
today.”  [Think  of  this  fat-jowled  foreign  Irish  Jesuit  vil¬ 
ifying  our  schools.] — Prof.  Dunne  of  the  Jesuit  College 
Washington,  D.  C. 

6 — Says  the  Freeman’s  Journal  of  November  20,  1869: 
“Let  the  public  school  system  go  to  where  it  came  from-^ 
THE  DEVIL.” 

It  has  been  suggested  that  if  this  eminent  editor  could 
realize  his  desire  and  our  school  system  land  at  the  realm 
of  his  satanic  majesty,  the  schools  would  not  then  lack  for 
priests  to  teach  them. 


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7 —  Says  the  Chicago  Catholic  Tablet :  “The  common 
schools  of  this  country  are  sinks  of  moral  pollution  and 
nurseries  of  hell.” 

8 —  No  less  emphatic  is  the  Catholic  Telegraph,  when  it 
says :  “The  American  school  system  is  a  national  fraud, 
a  social  cancer  presaging  the  death  of  national  morality 
(This  eminent  editor  did  not  refer  to  the  fact  that  in  Roman 
Catholic  countries  there  are  from  50  to  80  per  cent  of  the 
children  born  who  are  born  out  of  wedlock — illegitimate — 
and  that  in  these  countries  the  word  “morality”  is  totally 
unknown),  and  the  sooner  destroyed  the  better.  It  will  be 
a  glorious  day  for  the  Catholics  in  this  country  when  under 
the  blows  of  justice  and  morality,  our  schools  system  shall 
be  shattered  to  pieces.” 

9 —  The  Catholic  Review  gives  us  a  broadside  view  of 
the  reason  for  papal  antagonism  to  our  school  system,  when 
it  savs :  “We  would  rather  our  children  should  grow  up  in 
ignorance  of  letters  than  be  taught  in  a  school  that  is  not 
Catholic.” 

It  does  not  require  the  acumen  of  a  philosopher  to  dis¬ 
cover  the  reason  papists  so  dread  the  acquiring  of  knowl¬ 
edge  on  the  part  of  its  puppets.  Enlightenment  has  ever 
been  the  death  knell  of  Romanism  because  it  uncovers  the 
deceit  and  sham  and  graft  of  the  priestcraft. 

10 —  At  a  convention  held  in  St.  Louis  in  October,  1873, 
Priest  Phelan  is  quoted  as  saying:  “The  children  of  the 
public  schools  turn  out  to  be  horsethieves,  scholastic  coun¬ 
terfeiters  and  well  versed  in  schemes  of  deviltry.  I 
frankly  confess  that  Catholics  stand  before  this  country 
as  the  enemies  of  the  public  schools.  They  are  afraid  that 
the  child  that  left  home  in  the  morning  would  come  back 
with  something  in  his  heart  as  black  as  hell.”  This  old 


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liquor-lined  Irish  priest  might  have  added  that  the  Roman 
Catholic  schools  turn  out  42  per  cent  of  those  in  our  peni¬ 
tentiaries  and  all  over  the  world  five  times  their  proportion 
of  paupers  and  criminals,  90  per  cent  of  the  saloon-keep¬ 
ers  and  the  large  majority  of  the  members  of  the  Red  Light 
districts  of  this  country.  Of  course  Phelan  is  growing  old, 
and  age  with  forty-rod  booze  is  likely  to  have  some  effect 
on  the  memory  of  mankind. 

11 —  Another  blatant  Irish  priest,  one  McCarthy  by 
name,  in  a  so-called  sermon  delivered  Dec.  23,  1887,  said: 
“The  public  school  is  a  national  fraud;  it  must  cease  to 
exist,  and  the  day  will  come  when  it  will  cease  to  exist.” 

12 —  Said  Archbishop  Hughes,  the  priest  who  betrayed 
Abraham  Lincoln,  when  he  was  sent  to  Rome  on  a  very  im¬ 
portant  mission :  “The  public  school  system  is  a  disgrace  to 
the  civilization  of  the  nineteenth  century.” 

13 —  That  certain  priest  by  the  name  of  Chaucer,  echoes 
his  master’s  voice  in  these  words :  “The  public  schools  have 
produced  nothing  but  a  godless  generation  of  thieves  and 
blackguards.” 

14 — It  remains  for  the  infamous  Jesuit  or  Paulist  priest, 
Hecker  of  New  York,  to  put  Rome  on  record  in  plain  Eng¬ 
lish  style.  This  traitor  is  quoted  by  the  Catholic  World , 
July,  1870,  as  saying:  “Education  must  be  controlled  by 
Catholic  authorities,  and  under  education  the  opinions  of 
the  individuals  and  the  utterances  of  the  press  are  in¬ 
cluded,  and  many  opinions  are  to  be  forbidden  by  the 
secular  arm,  under  the  authority  of  the  Church,  ei ’em  to 
War  and  Bloodshed.” 

We  wonder  if  there  is  a  true  American  citizen  so  stupid 
as  to  think  there  is  not  a  damnable  and  deep-seated  plot 
behind  these  traitorous  utterances  and  the  thousands  of 


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others  we  have  not  space  to  quote?  Had  Methodist  or 
Baptist  ministers  publicly  uttered  such  vilifications  against 
our  public  schools  the  cowardly  newspapers  from  the  length 
to  the  breadth  of  this  land,  would  have  devoted  columns  to 
the  defense  of  our  schools.  Not  one  of  them  dare  call  a 
papal  priest  to  time. 

Has  America  a  Menace? 

*  If  the  Roman  Catholic  system  of  education  is  so  supe¬ 
rior  to  the  system  now  in  use  in  these  United  States,  we 
call  on  Cardinal  Gibbons  and  Archbishop  John  Ireland  to 
tell  us  why  in  every  nation  on  the  globe  where  the  Papal 
system  has  had  the  education  of  the  youth,  the  people  are 
degraded  until  the  only  difference  between  them  and  the 
dumb  brute  is,  one  can  talk  and  the  other  can  only  use 
signs.  Not  once  in  forty  years’  remembrance  by  the  writer 
can  he  recall  a  single  reference  to  the  intellectual  and  moral 
state  of  Papal  countries  by  these  distinguished  grandstand 
players. 


CHAPTER  IV. 


THE  PAPAL  HIERARCHY  A  POLITICAL 

MACHINE. 


Upon  her  forehead  was  a  name  written,  MYSTERY,  BABY¬ 
LON  THE  GREAT,  THE  MOTHER  OF  HARLOTS  AND 
ABOMINATIONS  OF  THE  EARTH/’ 

We  have  heretofore  intimated  the  danger  of  a  political 
organization  operating  behind  the  cloak  of  religion.  The 
charge  we  have  made  that  the  papal  hierarchy  is  a  political 
machine,  that  its  sole  aim  is  to  exercise  political  power  in 
order  to  more  completely  become  possessed  of  wealth,  is 
fully  borne  out  by  the  history  of  the  past  and  close  observa¬ 
tion  of  the  present. 

Protestants  may  doubt  and  papists  deny  this  statement ; 
but  we  unhesitatingly  charge  the  system  with  being  a  politi¬ 
cal  machine  rather  than  an  institution  maintained  for  the 
purpose  of  saving  the  souls  of  men.  This  does  not  mean 
that  a  Roman  Catholic  may  not  be  a  Christian,  but  it  does 
mean  that  the  Papal  Hierarchy  is  not  and  never  has  been 
a  Christian  institution,  and  we  challenge  anyone  to  prove 
that  it  is  founded  on  the  New  T estament  rule. 

We  know  the  Romish  priests  and  prelates  are  loud  in 
their  denials  of  being  in  politics,  but  if  the  system  is  not 
political,  pray  tell  us  why  since,  before  the  seventh  cen¬ 
tury,  Pope,  Prelate  and  Priest  have  been  so  busily  meddling 
in  affairs  political  and  have  been  constantly  busied  with 
political  intrigues  during  all  these  centuries?  No  historian 
will  question  our  statement,  for  all  such  know  that  no  small 
part  of  past  history  for  fourteen  hundred  years  is  made  up 


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of  the  bloody  intrigues  of  the  Papal  Hierarchy.  This  sys¬ 
tem  has  shed  more  human  blood  than  all  the  wars  of  his¬ 
tory,  civil  and  political.  Approximately  seventy  millions 
of  human  beings  have  fallen  because  of  Romanism’s  greed. 

You  do  not  hear  of  a  Baptist  or  a  Methodist  attempting 
to  dovetail  his  way  into  governments  or  conniving  to  get 
his  denomination  into  political  power. 

We  challenge  any  one  to  prove  that  the  laity  of  these 
great  bodies  are  less  capable  of  administering  the  affairs  of 
government  than  the  hordes  of  Irish  Catholic  office  seekers 
who  are  continuously  clamoring  for  political  recognition  in 
America. 

Furthermore,  why  were  papists  so  wroth  because  Presi¬ 
dent  Wilson  left  Romanists  out  of  his  cabinet?  There  are, 
we  believe,  no  Baptists  appointed,  and  not  a  member  of  that 
vast  body  has  thrown  a  fit  thus  far.  We  have  heard  no 
sound  of  lamentation  coming  from  Methodists  or  Uni¬ 
tarians.  If  the  System  is  not  a  political  institution  why  did 
it  hound  the  footsteps  of  Messrs.  Roosevelt  and  Taft  to  fill 
the  offices  with  papists,  a  request  each  of  them  cheerfully 
granted  to  John  Ireland.  No  body  of  Presbyterians  made 
such  requests.  Mr.  Wilson  chose  a  remarkably  high  grade 
of  men  as  his  Cabinet  advisors,  though  we  challenge  the 
patriotic  sentiments  of  some  of  them,  but  not  one  word  of 
complaint  has  come  from  Protestants  because  he  chose  no 
Lutherans  or  Quakers,  or  Baptists.  Prelates,  priests  and 
editors  have  unmercifully  lambasted  our  President  for  this 
oversight,  while  Protestants,  whose  sects  are  not  repre¬ 
sented  in  the  Cabinet,  bid  Mr.  Wilson  godspeed. 

Furthermore,  if  the  hierarchy  is  not  in  politics,  will  • 
some  one  inform  us  why  it  is  that  the  priests  of  the  papacy 
are  so  busy  about  our  legislative  halls?  Why  does  the 


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hierarchy  keep  what  it  calls  the  Papal  delegate  at  Wash¬ 
ington?  Why  is  there  an  army  of  Jesuits  stationed  at  our 
national  Capitol,  a  regularly  organized  political  bureau, 
watching  and  lobbying  all  the  time?  Will  some  one  tell  us 
why  all  these  things  are  practiced  if  the  hierarchy’s  chief 
aim  is  to  deal  out  the  saving  unction  of  a  divine  Redeemer? 

Let  a  state  legislature  consider  a  bill  to  open  the  con¬ 
vents  and  houses  of  Good  Shepherd  to  public  inspection  and 
see  how  soon  the  entire  political  petticoated  brigade  will 
rise  up  to  lobby  against  it. 

If  not  a  political  institution ,  why  does  the  Pope  send  an 
accredited  minister  to  our  government  as  do  political  gov¬ 
ernments?  He  does  not  come  for  religious  purposes,  for 
he  has  no  church  and  devotes  his  time  to  political  issues. 
It  is  reported  that  the  United  States  is  the  only  country  on 
earth,  except  Belgium,  that  will  receive  the  Papal  delegate 
as  a  minister  of  state.  Why  do  we  permit  this  foreign  spy 
and  traitor  to  pussy-foot  about  our  departments  of  state? 

Let  Americans  Solve  the  Problem. 

Why  is  it  that  Archbishop  John  Ireland,  of  St.  Paul,  Min- 
lesota ;  Cardinal  Gibbons  and  the  other  dignitaries,  have  dur¬ 
ing  the  past  administrations,  had  so  constant  and  urgent 
business  at  the  White  House ?  Congregational  and  Lutheran 
ministers  did  not  keep  the  path  warm  with  their  visits. 
Why  is  it  cardinals,  bishops  and  priests  are  so  exercised  be¬ 
cause  President  Wilson  was  too  wise  to  select  a  Romanist 
for  his  cabinet,  though  he  has  since  bowed  the  knee  to  Baal 
and  kissed  the  toe  of  the  Pope.  Why  is  it  that  from  Pope 
to  priest  the  Papal  system  is  urgently  recommending  Papists 
to  seek  public  office?  Why  is  it  that  the  stallfed  dispensers 
of  absolution  are  so  intent  on  getting  Papists  as  aldermen  of 


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our  municipalities  and  members  of  our  school  boards? 
Why  is  it  that  they  have  so  planned  as  to  secure  the  ap¬ 
pointment  of  from  sixty  to  eighty  per  cent  of  our  military 
cadets  who  are  Papists  ?  Why,  pray  tell  us^  has  the  army  of 
Jesuits  at  Washington  pulled  the  wires  in  such  a  way  as  to 
place  Papists  practically  in  complete  control  of  our  Navy. 

No  less  significant  is  the  why  and  wherefore  of  the  Papal 
hierarchy  colonizing  Papists  in  New  York,  Boston,  Chicago, 
St.  Louis,  San  Francisco  and  New  Orleans.  Each  of  these 
places  is  strategic  in  time  of  war  and  all  combined  practically 
could  be  made,  with  our  own  navy,  to  operate  on  the  plan 
of  the  corking  of  a  bottle. 

Mark  you,  we  said  these  cities  were  strategic  points.  Let 
us  go  a  step  further  and  suppose  a  case,  and  our  supposi¬ 
tion  is  based  upon  what  has  happened  more  times  than  once 
in  European  countries.  Suppose  that  Pius  X  took  a  notion 
to  evacuate  the  Vatican  and  move  his  relics  of  the  saints 
and  the  holy  water  to  America.  Our  navy  is  practically  in 
his  hands,  it  being  manned  by  men  who  have  sworn  alleg¬ 
iance  first  to  him;  our  generals  in  the  army  are  largely  un¬ 
der  the  same  obligation,  the  System  boasts  of  its  three  hun¬ 
dred  thousand  trained  Knights  of  Columbus,  besides  a  mul¬ 
titude  of  Hibernians  to  support  the  rear. 

Remember,  beloved  American,  all  these  have  sworn  first 
allegiance  to  the  Pope  of  Rome.  What  might  happen  if  the 
holy  Father  said  to  this  vast  army,  “go  to  it?” 

We,  practically  without  comment,  have  outlined  for  you 
the  situation  in  the  foregoing  series  of  questions.  You  can 
stand  face  to  face  with  them  today.  If  you  are  a  true 
American  you  must  answer  them.  Possibly  the  situation  is 
new  to  you.  It  may  be  you  have  not  thought  about  the 
subject  heretofore,  but  be  this  as  it  may,  if  you  are  a 


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patriotic  American  you  will  not  fail  to  give  these  questions 
full  consideration. 

We  challenge  anyone  to  prove  that  the  real  conditions  as 
we  have  set  them  forth  do  not  exist  today.  We  further 
challenge  preacher,  priest  or  politician  to  disprove  that  there 
is  not  a  systematic  carefully  planned  aim,  a  perfectly  organ¬ 
ized  plot,  a  singular  and  particular  purpose  behind  all  this 
papal  aggression. 

Is  It  A  Political  System? 

Let  Papists  Speak  on  This  Subject. 

“Furthermore,  it  is  generally  fitting  and  salutory  that 
Catholics  should  extend  their  efforts  beyond  this  restricted 
sphere  and  give  their  attention  to  National  politics.”  Pope 
Leo  XII,  Encyclical,  November  1,  1895. 

“Where  the  Church  does  not  forbid  taking  part  in  public 
affairs,  it  is  fit  and  proper  to  give  support  to  men  of  ac¬ 
knowledged  worth,  and  who  pledge  themselves  to  deserve 
well  in  the  Catholic  Cause.”  Pope  Leo  XIII,  Encyclical, 
January  10,  1890. 

Encyclical  Leo  XIII,  November  7,  1885. 

“We  exhort  all  Catholics  to  devote  careful  attention 
to  public  matters,  and  take  part  in  all  municipal  affairs  and 
elections,  and  all  public  services,  meetings  and  gatherings. 

“All  Catholics  must  make  themselves  felt  as  active  ele¬ 
ments  in  daily  political  life  in  countries  where  they  live.  All 
Catholics  should  exert  their  power  to  cause  the  constitutions 
of  States  to  be  modeled  on  the  principles  of  the  true  Church. 

“If  the  Catholics  are  idle,  the  reins  of  power  will  easily 
be  gained  by  persons  whose  opinions  can  surely  afford 
little  prosepect  of  welfare.  Hence  Catholics  have  just 
reason  to  enter  in  to  the  political  life;  having  in  mind  the 


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purpose  of  introducing  the  wholesome  life-blood  of  Cath¬ 
olic  wisdom  and  virtue  into  the  whole  system  of  the  State. 

“All  Catholics  who  are  worthy  of  the  name  must  work 
to  the  end  that  every  State  be  made  conformable  to  the 
Christian  model  we  have  described.”  Muller  in  Roman 
Catholic  Catechism.  No.  IV,  pp.  250-52. 

“The  Roman  Catholic  is  to  wield  his  vote  for  the  purpose 
of  securing  Catholic  ascendency  in  this  country.”  Priest 
Hecker  in  the  Catholic  World,  July,  1870. 

The  Catholic  Review,  July,  1894,  says:  “When  a  Cath¬ 
olic  candidate  is  on  the  ticket  and  his  opponent  is  a  non- 
Catholic ,  let  the  Catholic  candidate  have  the  vote — no  mat¬ 
ter  what  he  represents .”  He  may  be  a  libertine,  or  a  saloon¬ 
keeper,  but  if  he  is  a  papist  he  passes  at  par,  no  matter  what 
he  advocates. 

The  Catholic  World  says:  “We  hold  that  if  the  govern¬ 
ment  is  sustained  it  must  reject  the  principles  of  the  Re¬ 
formation,  and  accept  the  Catholic  principle,  which  is  the 
government  from  the  pope;  that  the  pope  issues  the  orders 
to  which  every  Catholic  must  yield  obedience.” 

“The  Church  never  can  come  into  its  own,  until  there  are 
more  Catholics  in  Congress.  The  Church  never  will  wield 
the  influence  for  good  which  it  should  possess  until  this 
comes  to  pass.  Do  not  fear  that  there  is  any  prejudice 
against  Catholics  in  high  places.  There  is  none.  You  are 
not  kept  back,  you  are  keeping  yourselves  back.” — Arch¬ 
bishop  Ireland  at  Detroit,  Mich.,  in  the  New  York  Tribune, 
January  28,  1911. 

“It  is  often  asked:  What  has  the  federation  accom¬ 
plished  during  the  seven  years  of  its  existenece?”  Among 
many  other  practical  results  may  be  mentioned  the  follow¬ 
ing:  The  creation  of  Catholic  public  opinion  in  the  United 


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States ;  the  repeal  of  the  obnoxious  marriage  law  in  Cuba ; 
the  appointment  of  Catholic  army  chaplains ;  the  introduc¬ 
tion  of  Catholic  books  into  the  public  libraries ;  the  defeat  of 
the  Bard  amendment,  affecting  the  rights  of  Catholic  In¬ 
dians  ;  the  acceptance  of  the  Father  Marquette  statue  by  our 
government. 

“In  Ohio,  New  Jersey,  Illinois,  Indiana,  Kansas,  Louisi¬ 
ana,  Pennsylvania,  and  Kentucky  the  federation  succeeded 
in  defeating  legislation  injurious  to  Catholic  interests. 

“Among  the  works  in  which  the  Federation  is  engaged 
and  which  it  expects  to  prosecute  with  renewed  vigor,  after 
this  national  convention,  let  me  select  these  two :  The  uni¬ 
fication  of  the  Catholic  nationalities  of  the  United  States 
and  the  solution  of  the  school  question.” — Bishop  McFaul, 
Trenton,  N.  J.  In  address  before  the  Catholic  Federation. 

Be  assured  it  is  not  a  mere  circumstance  based  on  desire 
to  deal  out  salvation  for  the  benefit  of  the  souls  of  the 
children  of  men ;  is  it  not  the  natural  trend  growing  out  of  a 
concentrated  effort  for  the  moral  uplift  of  humankind,  for 
such  do  not  come  through  armies  and  navies  and  secretly 
trained  privates.  What  does  it  mean  f 

In  leading  the  reader  to  seek  out  his  own  answer  to  the 
questions,  we  will  leave  the  subject  with  this  injunction:  It 
is  the  duty  of  every  American  to  penetrate  the  muck  and 
mire  of  real  Jesuitism  and  uncover  to  his  own  satisfaction 
just  what  all  this  means.  We  are  persuaded  you  will  find 
what  millions  of  Americans  are  finding,  that  the  secret  in¬ 
trigue  and  treason  of  the  pope’s  Jesuits  in  America  are  but 
the  outcropping  of  the  aim  of  the  System  whose  highest 
ambition  is  to  dethrone  liberty  and  warp  free  thought  and 
speech  and  bring  the  souls  and  bodies  of  men  into  abject 


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subservience  such  as  heretofore  obtained  in  European 
countries  and  now  obtains  in  South  America. 

“He  hath  ears  let  him  hear.” 


CHAPTER  V. 


PAPAL  PHILANTHROPY. 


“By  their  fruits  ye  shall  know  them” 

Whatever  be  our  private  opinion  concerning  the  Papal 
Hierarchy,  our  desire  is  that  no  influence  of  our  own  be 
permitted  to  overshadow  full  recognition  of  any  possible 
good  there  might  be  in  the  system  of  Popery.  In  other 
words,  we  are  not  here  expressing  our  opinions,  but  rather 
suggesting  the  evidence  in  support  of  the  charges  made 
at  the  head  of  the  different  divisions  of  our  subject  and 
our  desire  is  to  give  the  accused  the  benefit  of  any  and  all 
doubt.  On  the  other  hand,  whatever  we  may  say  could  not 
for  a  moment  measure  up  with  the  results  of  centuries  of 
activities  on  the  part  of  the  defendant. 

“By  their  fruits  ye  shall  know  them !’ 

This  brings  us  directly  to  a  view  of  the  papacy  from  the 
present  time  back  through  the  centuries. 

1.  As  a  philanthropic  Institution. 

Times  almost  without  number  we  have  heard  it  innocently 
but  ignorantly  said  that  the  Papal  Hierarchy  was  such  a 
wonderfully  philanthropic  institution,  with  open  arms  reach¬ 
ing  out  in  every  direction  indicative  of  loving  sympathy  for 
the  unfortunate  and  the  distressed — which  may  be  true, 
but  like  the  wolf  loves  the  lamb.  The  idea  seems  to  have 
become  quite  prevalent  that  the  multitudinous  and  pretenti¬ 
ous  piles  of  brick,  stone  and  mortar  called  asylums,  hos¬ 
pitals,  and  houses  of  the  Good  Shepherd  are  lasting  monu¬ 
ments  to  the  spirit  of  true  altruism  which  pervades  the  Sys- 


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tem.  Not  a  few  who  are  accustomed  to  see  the  pale-faced, 
scantily  fed  nuns  begging  on  the  streets  can  easily  sur¬ 
mise  that  they  are  bearing  their  burdens  solely  under  the 
inspiration  of  a  desire  to  assist  unfortunate  humanity 
as  uppermost  in  their  souls. 

Our  charge  is  that  the  sun  does  not  shine  on  a  mor€ 
colossal  fallacy.  If  you  will  take  the  pains  to  reduce  the 
charge  to  its  final  analysis,  you  will  find  that  for  every 
human  pain  allayed,  the  Almighty  dollar  jingles  at  some 
point  as  it  comes  in  contact  with  the  Papal  strongbox. 

Mark  you  well  our  charge.  We  unhesitatingly  assert  that 
every  move  made  by  the  philanthropic  arm  of  the  papal 
hierarchy  drops  the  coveted  ducats  into  the  treasury.  The 
question  may  arise:  Does  not  the  System  maintain  many 
and  mighty  institutions?  We  frankly  admit  it  does  but  as  a 
rule  they  are  built  with  Protestant  money  and  maintained 
as  a  blind  for  begging  nuns  to  touch  up  the  heretics.  Thous¬ 
ands  of  poor  deluded  womankind  blindly  delve  and  drudge, 
poorly  clad,  scantily  fed,  without  receiving  one  farthing  for 
their  service,  all  for  the  glory  of  God(?)6  and  the  enrich¬ 
ment  of  the  hierarchy. 

Do  you  imagine  the  hospital  service  is  free  to  the  sick, 
the  halt,  the  lame  and  the  blind?  Other  sects  and  cor¬ 
porations  maintain  institutions  for  revenue  and  do  not 
pose  as  philanthropists.  But  what  better  purpose  do  these 
institutions  serve  than  is  served  by  our  state  and  municipal 
institutions?  Really  what  is  the  need  for  them ? 

The  houses  of  the  Good  Shepherd  attached  to  most  of  our 
great  cities  having  for  their  alleged  purposes  the  reforma¬ 
tion  of  girls  who  in  an  unguarded  moment  may  have  pur- 

6.  The  pope  and  priest  is  God  to  the  papist  and  exercises  all 
those  divine  prerogatives  we  ascribe  to  the  Supreme  Being. 


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loined  a  forty-cent  box  of  candy,  a  can  of  face  powder,  or 
a  tuck  comb,  have  been  found  to  emit  an  atmosphere  not 
in  keeping  with  their  name.  No  doubt  the  reader  has 
supposed  that  these  unfortunate  girls  are  sent  to  the  house 
of  the  Good  Shepherd  because  the  holy  influences  of  the  nuns 
would  overcome  their  evil  proclivities  and  imbue  them  with 
those  high  and  holy  desires  which  make  for  a  complete 
reformation.  This  is  and  has  been  the  prevailing  opinion 
of  these  holy  retreats  at  which  the  sacred  nuns  keep  faith¬ 
ful  vigil.  Great  guns,  how  grossly  you  have  been  deceived! 
These  houses  of  the  Good  Shepherd  are  nothing  more  than 
vast  laundries  where  frail  girls  are  compelled  to  bend  their 
backs  over  the  zvashtub  from  early  morn  till  late  at  night; 
where  the  linen  of  great  hotels  and  vast  railroad  systems 
is  laundried  for  gain  to  enrich  the  Papal  Hierarchy.  The 
various  cities  are  paying  the  board  of  these  girls  at  the  rate 
of  from  $3.00  to  $5.00  per  week  and  they  are,  contrary  to 
law  and  human  kindness,  placed  in  abject  slavery  and  fed 
on  the  refuse  gathered  from  various  sources  and  the  profit 
on  their  labor  goes  into  the  treasury  of  the  Papal  Hier¬ 
archy.  This,  beloved,  is  a  fair  sample  of  Roman  Catholic 
philanthropy.  These  houses  of  the  Good  Shepherd  re¬ 
ceive  pay  for  these  girls  from  the  municipalities  and  at  the 
same  time  get  the  profit  of  from  ten  to  eighteen  hours  a 
day  for  their  labor.  All  this  is  in  America,  in  this  glorious 
twentieth  century. 

These  are  the  mints  of  the  Papal  Hierarchy  illegally 
turning  the  labor  of  frail  girls  into  the  coin  of  the  realm 
which  drops,  drops,  drops,  into  the  System’s  treasury,  at 
the  rate  of  millions  of  dollars  annually.  These  girls,  whose 
keep  is  paid  by  the  municipalities,  are  worked  inhumanly 
by  the  heavenly  nuns  over  laundry  tub,  mangle  or  sewing 


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table  for  not  only  months  but  years  without  decent  clothes, 
adequate  food,  and  humane  treatment.7 

In  Ireland  today  the  Hierarchy  not  only  is  deriving  profit 
from  the  schools,  the  convents  and  houses  of  Good  Shep¬ 
herd,  but  from  the  insane  asylums  as  well. 

Mr.  Michael  J.  F.  McCarthy  shows  that  the  Papal  para¬ 
sites  are  drawing  public  funds  from  every  conceivable 
source  and  piling  up  immense  wealth  while  the  poor  de¬ 
luded  people  are  sinking  deeper  and  deeper  in  misery, 
squalor  and  ignorance. 

If  you  need  further  convincing  make  an  investigation  in 
your  own  city.  Take  the  house  of  Good  Shepherd  of  Cin¬ 
cinnati  or  Pittsburgh.  Just  at  this  time  the  latter  institu¬ 
tion  is  undergoing  investigation,  with  results  such  as  we 
have  already  described,  only  infinitely  worse.  Philanthropy ? 
Ye  Gods!  Uplifting  influences?  The  saints  save  us!  .Re- 
fining  and  Reformatory?  If  the  almighty  dollar  refines  and 
reforms.  Yes.  Mark  our  charge ,  every  time  the  crank  of 
the  great  philanthropic  machine  of  the  Papal  Hierarchy 
turns  the  mechanism  is  so  constructed  that  the  dollar  drops 
out.8 


7.  A  prominent  business  man  of  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  told  the 
writer  only  a  few  months  ago  how  he  and  some  friends  waged  war 

for  some  years  on  Archbishop  John  Ireland’s  House  of  Good  Shep¬ 
herd,  and  how  he  had  found  girls  had  been  detained  for  years, 
against  their  will,  after  their  sentence  had  expired.  The  same  gen¬ 
tleman  referred  to  one  girl  who  had  been  held  in  slavery  in  the 
laundry  of  this  institution  for  about  twenty-one  years  without 
a  penny  of  remuneration.  Possibly  Archbishop  Ireland  needs  the 
money  for  a  dome  to  the  new  cathedral.  Miss  Frances  Lloyd,  one 
of  the  public  school  teachers  of  Chicago,  declares  she  labored  in 
one  of  the  hierarchy’s  heavenly  retreats  for  twenty-three  years 
without  one  farthing  in  the  way  of  remuneration.  This  frail  young 
lady,  at  fair  wages,  has  contributed  about  $25,000  in  service  to 
the  hierarchy  and  she  is  but  one  of  seventy  thousand  similar  cases 
in  America. 


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Mothers  of  America,  will  you  continue  to  pray  and  plan 
to  relieve  your  sisters  in  India  while  a  state  infinitely  worse 
is  the  lot  of  your  own  sisters,  probably  within  the  city  in 
which  you  live?  Unfortunate  girls  are  being  sent  con¬ 
trary  to  law,  contrary  to  human  decency,  contrary  to  the 
American  spirit,  contrary  to  justice,  to  these  places  that 
the  Papal  system  may  grind  from  them  the  almighty  dollar 
for  the  use  of  the  lecherous  priests,  while  we  sing,  ‘‘Rescue 
the  Perishing.”  These  girls  are  imprisoned  for  years  and 
when  released  are  turned  out  without  adequate  clothing  to 
cover  their  nakedness  and  are  fully  equipped  for  the  red- 
ight  district.  Ambition  gone,  womanhood  stifled,  aspirations 
deadened,  spirit  broken,  they  are  turned  out  on  the  world 
penniless. 

Women  of  our  churches,  have  you  a  duty?  Are  you  ful¬ 
filling  your  mission  in  life  as  the  guardian  angels  of  a 
glorious  sisterhood,  if  you  do  not  raise  the  cry  to  open  up 
these  worse  than  prison  houses  of  Good  Shepherd  and 
nuneries  and  bring  them  under  the  most  rigid  inspection t 
The  voice  of  Rachael  weeping  for  her  children  is  but  a 
nursery  lullaby  compared  with  the  wail  of  thousands  of 


8.  What  of  the  scores  of  convents?  The  most  inhuman  of 
all  slavery,  drudgery,  degradation  and  debauchery  that  has  ever 
existed  since  the  foundation  of  the  world.  The  suffering  inside 
many  of  those  convent  walls  is  attested  to  by  hundreds  of  escaped 
nuns.  No  artist’s  brush  can  ever  picture — no  human  mind  ap¬ 
preciate.  You  who  enjoy  the  freedom  of  this  gracious  twentieth 
century  atmosphere  imagine  a  system  imprisoning  deluded  women* 
kind  all  their  natural  lives  in  these  convent  prisons  and  reaping 
filthy  gain  at  the  expense  of  their  womanhood,  their  pleasure,  their 
usefulness  to  the  world,  their  place  in  society  and  that  jewel  which 
is  above  all  price.  If  you  doubt  our  charge,  we  refer  you  to  the 
large  number  of  women  who  have  thrown  off  the  fetters  of  these  in¬ 
stitutions  and  tell  their  own  story.  So  far  as  we  know  history,  not 
one  inmate  of  these  places  has  escaped  that  did  not  bear  the  same 
testimony  concerning  them. 


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girls  with  immortal  souls  incarcerated  in  these  dens  behind 
prison  bars,  all  the  while  posing  under  the  cloak  of  philan¬ 
thropic  institutions,  but  whose  aim  is  to  grind  filthy  lucre 
for  the  Papal  Hierarchy  at  the  cost  of  thousands  of  the 
lives  of  daughters  of  your  sisters  in  the  flesh.  Can  you 
pray  again,  “Thy  Kingdom  Come,”  and  hold  your  peace 
when  you  know  all  this  is  taking  place  right  before  your 
eyes  ?  May  the  Great  God  touch  your  lips  and  hearts  with 
a  coal  from  off  the  altar  and  send  you  forth  as  ministering 
angels  to  rid  our  land  of  this  awful  crime  against  decency, 
humanity,  womanhood,  God,  home  and  country. 

We  challenge  you  to  prove  we  have  overtinted  the  pic¬ 
ture.  We  challenge  priest  or  prelate,  monk  or  monkey,  to 
disprove  one  statement  we  have  made.  We  charge  that  these 
Convents  and  Houses  of  Good  Shepherd  are  the  vilest  of 
vile  prisons  where  inhuman  treatment  is  inflicted  on  frail 
girls,  where  the  food  is  vile  and  in  many  instances  filthy 
and  all  for  the  glory  of  “Lord  God  the  Pope’s”  treasury 
box. 

Who  dare  disprove  it?  Christian  women !  in  the  name  of 
decency  and  patriotism,  of  womanhood  and  motherhood, 
rise  up  and  acquaint  yourself  with  what  is  transpiring 
about  you. 

2 — ORPHAN  ASYLUMS. 

Your  attention  has  more  than  a  few  times  been  called 
to  the  numerous  orphan  asylums  maintained  by  the  benevo¬ 
lent  arm  of  the  Papacy.  Time  and  again  you  have  heard 
how  charitable  Romanists  are,  how  very  solicitous  of  the 
welfare  of  helpless  children.  You  have  indeed  heard  this 
so  often  that  you  have  been  duped  into  believing  that  the 
Papal  System  really  does  outdo  others  along  the  line  of 


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philanthropy.  Did  it  ever  occur  to  you  that  no  institution 
or  organization  under  heaven  stands  in  greater  need  of 
shelter  for  foundlings?9  We  are  putting  the  question 
squarely  up  to  you  and  leaving  you  to  make  your  own  solu¬ 
tion.  With  seventeen  thousand  bachelor  priests  and  seventy 
thousand  unmarried  maidens,  is  it  any  more  than  playing 
the  human  act  to  make  provision  for  foundlings? 

After  consideration  of  the  three  following  charges  it 
will  be  seen  that  the  Papal  orphanage  is  not  altogether  a 
philanthropic  institution. 

1 —  It  is  a  trap  to  catch  Protestant  simpleton’s  contribu¬ 
tions. 

2 —  It  is  maintained  to  feed  the  Papal  Church. 

3 —  It  profits  by  the  free  services  of  the  youth. 

1.  There  is  nothing  the  Papacy  dotes  more  on  than 
show.  One  of  its  strong  points  is  bluster  and  noise  in 
order  to  attract  attention.  Pompous  processions,  blazing 
bazaars,  illegal  lotteries,  gambling  devices  and  newspaper 

9.  We  defy  any  living  person  to  prove  that  the  rate  of  illegiti¬ 
mate  births  is  so  great  in  any  country  under  heaven  as  in  Roman 
Catholic  countries. 

Hear  a  spasm  of  honest  confession  from  the  Westminster 
Gazette ,  a  well  known  papal  publication.  “The  neglected  children 
of  London  are  chiefly  our  children,  and  the  lowest  of  every  class, 
whether  thieves  or  drunkards,  are  Catholics.” 

Statistics  gathered  from  the  several  public  documents  show  that 
the  illegitimate  birth  rate  in  Brussels  was  35  to  the  100  births,  in 
Paris  33,  in  Vienna  55,  in  Brazil  84,  in  Argentina  50,  in  England  5. 
Bishop  Thomas  B.  Neeley,  in  his  South  America ,  says :  “Illegitimacy 
of  birth,  which  is  so  common,  further  reveals  the  widespread  im¬ 
morality  of  South  American  countries.  The  percentage  of  illegiti¬ 
mate  births  is  exceedingly  high,  sometimes  thirty  or  fifty  or  a 
greater  per  cent.  In  Eucador  it  is  seventy-five  per  cent.  In  Vene¬ 
zuela  more  than  one-half  the  children  are  illegitimate.” 

The  Rev.  H.  C.  Tueller  of  Rio  de  Janeiro,  writing  in  1890,  says 
of  Brazil:  “The  official  statistics  show  that  in  the  year  1890  there 
were  living  2,603,489  persons,  or  more  than  one-sixth  of  the  entire 
population  of  the  country,  who  were  born  out  of  wedlock.” 


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notices  are  part  of  the  game  to  keep  everlastingly  in  the 
limelight,  while  the  real  work  of  the  System  is  done  under 
cover.  The  pale-faced,  ill-fed  nuns  going  from  merchant  to 
merchant  begging  Protestants  to  support  Papal  institutions 
are  at  the  same  time  advertising  their  philanthropic  side 
show.  Vast  revenues  are  thus  gathered  to  boost  the  char¬ 
ity  side  of  popery  and.  cover  up  its  political  aggression.  In 
certain  states,  through  the  election  of  Papists  to  the  legisla¬ 
tures,  large  sums  are  cropped  out  of  the  public  treasury  to 
support  various  Papal  institutions  under  the  guise  of  pub¬ 
lic  charity.  This  graft  has  become  very  general  and 
promises  to  grow  quite  popular  unless  checked  by  true 
Americans. 

2.  It  can  be  fully  depended  on  that  the  orphans  in 
these  institutions  are  fed  morning,  noon  and  night  on  the 
Papal  catechism.  The  rudiments  of  popery  are  instilled  in 
these  youthful  minds  and  their  names  placed  on  the  records 
of  members  in  good  standing.  This  is  a  reason  why  Papists 
say,  give  them  the  child  until  ten  years  of  age  and  Pro¬ 
testants  may  have  them  ever  after. 

Thus  the  orphanages  become  feeders  to  the  Church  and 
help  along  the  boost  of  the  Papacy  in  such  vast  numbers 
belonging  to  that  system. 

3.  The  vast  numbers  of  waifs  picked  up  by  Papists 
are  taught  to  produce  something  as  they  grow  physically 
competent.  Be  this  much  or  little,  it  goes  to  swell  the  pro¬ 
fits  these  institutions  produce  for  the  overworked  Holy 
Father . 

Now,  before  you  doubt  the  charges  we  have  brought 
against  the  philanthropic  arm  of  the  Papacy,  let  us  ask  you 
just  one  simple  question.  Did  you  ever,  during  all  the  days 
of  your  life,  know  or  hear  of  the  Papal  System,  or  even 


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local  Romish  priests,  leading  in  raising  funds  for  the  relief 
of  a  city,  community  or  nation  when  sudden  disaster,  fa¬ 
mine  or  scourge  overtook  them,  or  contributing  to  any 
Protestant  Church  or  charity  affair?  Just  think  it  over  and 
answer  the  question  honestly  in  your  own  mind. 

Let  us  make  it  a  bit  plainer.  We  recently  saw  the  state¬ 
ment  of  the  funds  the  Christian  Herald  of  New  York  had 
gathered  during  the  past  few  years  to  relieve  distressed 
humanity  at  home  and  abroad.  The  amount  aggregated 
several  millions  of  dollars.  Now,  honor  bright,  did  you 
ever  hear  of  the  Papal  Hierarchy  voluntarily  letting  loose 
of  one  dollar  when  the  call  of  distress  came?10 

It  is  reported  the  Knights  of  Columbus  had  a  few 
months  ago  devoted  the  sum  of  ten  thousand  dollars  for  the 
flood  sufferers  in  Ohio,  but  Mr.  Priest  insisted  it  be  used 
for  Papists  only.  This,  you  will  find  at  times  is  done,  but 
we  ask  you  again,  did  you  ever  hear  of  the  Papacy  donating 
one  dollar  directly  and  voluntarily  for  the  general  relief  of 
humanity?  Roman  Catholic  citizens  may  have  done  so, 
but  the  priests  of  the  Hierarchy,  never. 

Take  your  time  to  recall  instances  where  you  know  our 
charge  will  not  hold  good.  But  as  it  is,  the  burden  of  proof 
to  the  contrary  rests  with  you.  The  statement  recently  ap¬ 
peared  in  the  public  press  that  contributions  to  the  Papal 
hierarchy  for  the  last  year  reached  the  fabulous  sum  of 
five  hundred  millions  of  dollars.  We  challenge  you  to  fur- 


10.  It  is  said  the  home  office  of  one  branch  of  the  Convent 
System  of  the  Papacy,  which  is  located  in  France,  some  time  ago 
had  thirty  millions  of  dollars  on  deposit  in  one  bank  and  sixteen 
millions  in  another,  while  the  real  estate  holdings,  which  escape 
taxation,  are  almost  beyond  computation.  All  this  is  gathered  from 
the  labor  of  young  women  in  the  convents  and  Houses  of  Good 
Shepherd,  as  well  as  from  orphans  and  from  the  begging  nuns. 


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nish  us  with  proof  that  any  considerable  part  of  this  vast 
sum  has  been  devoted  to  philanthropic  purposes. 

Misery  indescribable  exists  in  every  Papal  country  on 
earth  today.  Millions  of  Roman  Catholics  are  living  al¬ 
most  on  the  level  with  the  brute,  unthinkable  squalor  exists 
in  tens  of  thousands  of  places  notwithstanding  millions  of 
dollars  annually  are  grafted  under  the  pretext  of  saving  im¬ 
mortal  souls. 

How  under  heaven  can  a  sane  mind  reconcile  philan¬ 
thropy  with  what  actually  exists  today  in  Papal  circles? 
It  is  unthinkable.  But  this  is  not  all.  Protestantism  is 
spending  millions  of  dollars  for  the  uplift  of  men  who  for 
divers  reasons  are  homeless  and  Godless  in  our  great  cities. 
Hundreds  of  life-saving  stations  are  planted  in  the  slum 
districts  and  maintained  by  our  business  men.  Did  you 
ever  know  of  a  Papal  Cardinal,  Archbishop,  Bishop  or 
Priest  expending  his  energies  and  revenues  on  this  sort  of 
work?  You  never  did,  and  you  never  will.  While  the 
class  we  referred  to  are  largely  Papist,  they  are  of  little 
consequence  to  the  Plierarchy  because  they  cannot  fill  the 
maw  of  a  conscienceless  greed  and  help  to  make  up  the 
needed  half  billion  annual  collection.  In  other  words,  the 
System  is  willing  that  Protestants  should  support  Papists 
as  long  as  they  are  down  and  out  and  have  no  money  to 
drop  in  the  strong  box.  The  class  of  dependents  on  our 
charity  rolls  in  America  is  largely  Roman  Catholic.  If 
any  doubt  the  statement,  just  refer  to  Chicago,  Boston  or 
New  York. 

When  seven  and  one-half  millions  of  dollars  were  paid 
to  the  Hierarchy  for  friar  lands  in  the  Philippines,  did  that 
great  philanthropic  institution  pass  it  along  as  an  endowment 
fund  for  the  education  and  uplift  of  the  Philippines?  Not 


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in  a  thousand  years.  It  dropped  the  gold  into  its  strong  box 
and,  through  certain  political  candidates,  secured  our  public 
funds  with  which  to  cram  the  Filipino  with  the  Romish 
Catechism.  This  is  precisely  what  the  Hierarchy  is  doing 
today  to  our  island  wards.  Do  you  wonder  that  Cardinal 
Gibbons  should  strenuously  object  to  giving  the  Filipinos 
self-government?  Their  liberty  means  taking  the  hand  of 
the  Hierarchy  out  of  our  public  treasury.  Its  insatiable 
greed  was  not  satisfied  with  the  nine  and  one-half  millions 
of  dollars  which  rightfully  belonged  to  the  Filipinos,  if  it 
really  belonged  to  any  one,  but  it  seeks  to  graft  our  public 
funds  with  which  to  further  wither  and  warp  this  unfortu¬ 
nate  people. 

Philanthropic?  “By  their  fruits  ye  shall  know  them.” 


CHAPTER  VI. 


THE  INFLUENCE  OF  POPERY. 


“A  good  tree  cannot  bring  forth  evil  fruit,  neither  can  a  corrupt 
tree  bring  forth  good  fruit,  for  the  tree  is  known  by  its  fruit.” — 
Matt,  vii,  18  and  xii,  33. 

In  this  chapter  it  shall  be  our  aim  to  review  the  system 
of  Popery,  showing  the  reader  its  effect  on  those  nations 
which  it  has  dominated  for  centuries.  At  the  outset  let  us 
again  remind  you  that  we  shall  content  ourselves  with  re¬ 
viewing  facts,  leaving  you  to  draw  your  own  conclusions. 

In  this  review  we  again  disclaim  all  desire  to  give  promi¬ 
nence  to  our  opinions,  preferring  to  let  history  bear  testi¬ 
mony  as  it  may. 

“The  tree  is  known  by  its  fruit.” 

Since  A.  D.  606,  Popery  has  assumed  a  two-fold  prerog¬ 
ative.  It  has  not  only  claimed  to  open  up  the  sole  avenue 
of  salvation  for  the  souls  of  men,  and  to  guard  that  avenue, 
permitting  to  pass  whom  it  will,  but  it  has  assumed  a  so- 
called  divine  political  right  to  make  laws  governing  the 
politics  and  economic  problems  of  mankind.  Born  of  an 
ancestry  presuming  to  possess  these  functions  because  of 
direct  succession  to  the  gods,  it  is  not  at  all  unnatural  that 

A 

such  presumptuous  prerogatives  should  pass  from  parent 
to  child. 

Taking  unto  itself  these  claims,  whitewashed  with  a  dis¬ 
torted  interpretation  of  Scripture  largely  impregnated  with 
tradition,  Popery  came  to  assume  not  only  divine  power, 
but  equality  with  Divinity  itself.  It  heralded  abroad  the 
claim  of  sole  interpreter  of  the  will  of  Almighty  God,  pre- 


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cisely  as  its  Pagan  ancestry  interpreted  the  will  of  the  gods 
centuries  before  its  birth.  He  who  presumed  to  exercise  the 
right  to  worship  his  Maker  according  to  the  dictates  of  his 
own  conscience  at  once  became  a  heretic  and  the  subject  of 
curses,  anathemas,  persecution  and  death.  It  is  estimated 
that  this  assumed  divine  prerogative  of  the  Papacy  has  been 
built  up  and  maintained  at  the  cost  of  from  fifty  to  seventy 
millions  of  innocent  human  lives. 

Now  let  us  see  what  effect  this  divine  panacea  has  had 
on  the  nations  whose  ills  it  has  treated.  We  have  a  perfect 
right  to  suppose  divinity  would  leave  its  stamp  upon  its  sub¬ 
jects  in  like  manner  as  the  parent  imparts  some  characteristic 
to  the  child.  If  the  Pope  and  Priest  be  the  direct  representa¬ 
tives  of  God  Almighty  on  earth  and  transmit  His  image  to  the 
hearts  and  lives  of  men,  if  they  possess  the  purpose  and 
power  as  direct  successors  of  our  adorable  Lord  Jesus  Christ, 
then  who  can  criticise  us  for  supposing  we  have  a  right  to 
expect  the  subjects  of  this  vast  System  to  be  the  most  en¬ 
lightened,  most  godly,  most  advanced,  most  civilized,  most 
honored,  most  righteous  of  any  people  upon  earth  today? 
According  to  the  System,  these  people  have  listened  for  cen¬ 
turies  to  the  voice  of  our  blessed  God;  indeed  the  voice  of 
those  possessed  of  powers  greater  than  those  of  Almighty 
God  himself.11  They  have  all  the  days  of  their  lives  seen 


11.  PRIESTLY  PRESUMPTION. 

The  following  is  part  of  a  sermon  preached  by  Priest  Martin 
M.  Gregory,  a  Roman  Catholic,  in  one  of  the  Catholic  churches  of 
Chicago  recently,  and  reported  in  the  Chicago  Inter-Ocean.  The 
subject  of  the  sermon  was  “The  Priesthood  of  Christ.” 

“The  priest  of  today,  rightly  ordained  in  the  church,  is  as  truly 
a  priest  as  were  the  apostles  or  even  Christ  himself.  In.  his  eleva¬ 
tion  to  the  sacerdotal  order  the  priest  received  a  spiritual  character 
and  he  participates  in  the  divine  power  of  our  Savior.  [Priest 
Hans  Schmidt  is  an  example.]  He  is  not  merely  like  Aaron  and 
Melchizedek;  he  is  like  Christ  himself.  He  is  another  Christ.  He 


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Almighty  God  (heaven  forgive  the  blasphemy)  go  in  and 
out  before  them.  They  have  touched  the  hem  of  His  gar¬ 
ments  and  kissed  his  holy  toes  from  childhood  to  the  grave. 
Tell  us  then  if  we  are  committing  any  breach  if  we  presume 
to  expect  the  fruits  of  the  System  to  be  anything  but  the 
very  highest  and  holiest  since  the  foundation  of  the  world? 

Judge  for  Yourself. 

We  incorporate  the  following  review  of  those  countries 
over  which  the  Papal  System  has  held  sway  for  from  four 
to  fourteen  centuries  and  leave  you  to  be  the  judge.  We, 


not  merely  represents  Christ ;  he  is  one  with  Him.  Christ  is  in  him 
by  the  divine  power  he  has  received  in  ordination  and  through  the 
mystic  words  of  consecration  he  really  and  truly  offers  up  to  God 
his  own  Divine  Son,  our  Lord  and  Savior,  Jesus  Christ. 

I  cannot  exaggerate  the  power  and  dignity  of  the  priest  of  God. 
His  power  is  greater  than  that  of  an  angel.  His  dignity  is  greater 
than  that  of  Mary,  the  queen  of  Angels.  At  the  altar  his  power  is 
not  inferior  to  that  of  God  himself.  In  the  most  adorable  sacrifice 
of  the  Mass  the  priest,  in  taking  bread  and  wine  and  pronouncing 
the  several  words  of  consecration,  draws  aside  the  veil  of  heaven 
and  calls  Christ  down  upon  our  altar.  At  the  voice  of  the  priest 
the  substances  of  bread  and  wine  are  immediately  changed  into  the 
body  and  blood  of  Christ.  No  power  of  man  is  equal  to  this  sub¬ 
lime  action.  It  must  be  the  power  of  God. 

“Besides  the  sacrificial  power  which  the  priest  received,  there  is 
also  given  him,  in  his  ordination,  the  power  to  forgive  sins.  These 
are  the  words  of  Christ: 

“  ‘Receive  ye  the  Holy  Ghost.  Whose  sins  you  shall  forgive  shall 
be  forgiven  them.’ 

“This  power  of  forgiving  sins  he  shares  with  Christ  himself, 
so  that  if  Christ  were  to  descend  upon  each  and  hear  confessions  in 
one  confessional,  while  the  priest  would  in  another,  the  penitents 
in  both  cases  would  be  forgiven  in  the  same  degree.^ 

“Behold,  then,  the  power  and  dignity  of  the  priest!  What  can 
we  find  in  this  world  comparable  to  it?  St.  Ignatius  calls  it  ‘the 
apex  of  dignities?’  The  sacerdotal  dignity  surpasses  all  under¬ 
standing.  The  dignity  of  the  priesthood  is  a  mystery  that  we  can¬ 
not  form  a  just  conception  of.  It  suffices  that  we  attend  to  the 
words  of  Christ  when  he  says:  ‘He  that  heareth  you  heareth  Me, 
and  he  that  despiseth  you,  despiseth  Me.’  ” — Published  by  the  Patriot ; 
taken  from  the  Indo- American  Magazine. 


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mark  you,  refrain  from  expressing  our  personal  opinion, 
because  we  want  to  be  fair  on  the  one  hand,  and  assume  that 
the  intelligence  of  the  reader  needs  no  assistance  on  the 
other. 

The  reader  is  cited  to  these  Papal  countries  in  order  to 
judge  for  himself  if  or  not  the  danger  signals  now  being 
erected  throughout  America  are  superfluous  or  timely, 

whether  they  be  warranted  or  merely  the  outcroppings 
of  the  fancy  of  alarmists.  You  must  be  the  judge.  Our 

province  is  to  state  the  facts.  For  twelve  hundred  years  the 
Papal  Hierarchy  has  held  undisputed  power  over  Italy, 
Portugal,  France  and  Spain;  that  is,  the  Hierarchy’s  rule 
began  about  twelve  centuries  ago. 

Now,  mark  you,  the  Hierarchy  teaches  that  it,  and  it 
alone,  possesses  to  the  absolute  exclusion  of  all  other  sys¬ 
tems,  the  principle  of  spiritual,  moral  and  commercial  up¬ 
lift  and  those  elements  which  go  to  make  up  the  highest  and 
most  finished  civilization.  It  teaches  that  the  Pope,  the  sole 
head  of  the  System,  is  even  greater  than  Almighty  God12  and 
has  the  right  to  dictate  the  things  which  make  man  all  that 
his  Creator  wants  him  to  be.  It  further  teaches  that  the 
Church,  of  which  the  Pope  is  the  head,  is  the  one  efficient 
panacea  for  all  the  ills  human  nature  is  heir  to ;  that  once 
man  swears  obedience  to  the  Church,  he  is  a  man  from  the 
crown  of  his  head  to  the  sole  of  his  shoe.  Now  then,  take 
a  glance  at  the  nations  which  have  been  ruled  by  the  System 


12.  Pope  Pius  X,  when  Archbishop  of  Venice,  set  forth  the 
Pope  in  these  words :  “The  Pope  is  not  only  the  representa¬ 
tive  of  Jesus  Christ,  but  he  is  Jesus  Christ  himself,  hidden  un¬ 
der  the  veil  of  flesh.  Does  the  Pope  speak?  It  is  Jesus  Christ 
who  speaks.  Does  the  Pope  accord  a  favor  or  pronounce  an  ana¬ 
thema?  It  is  Jesus  Christ  who  pronounces  the  anathema  or  ac¬ 
cords  the  favor.  So  that  when  the  Pope  speaks,  we  have  no  busb 
ness  to  examine.  We  have  only  to  obey.” 


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of  the  Papacy  and  decide  for  yourself  what  has  been  its  in¬ 
fluence  on  those  Nations.  Glance  at  Italy,  France,  Spain, 
Portugal,  all  nations  which  have  had  a  tenfold  opportunity 
to  become  and  to  continue  the  mistresses  of  the  entire  world. 
Review  the  struggles  through  which  they  have  passed  down 
through  the  centuries.  Observe  the  want,  the  squalor,  the 
degradation,  the  misery,  the  illiteracy,  the  illegitimacy,  the 
crime,  the  immorality,  not  only  now,  but  during  the  past 
centuries.  Trace  the  bloody  tracks  of  the  System  down 
through  the  centuries  and  then  tell  us  if  we  are  severe  in 
handling  the  case.  Education  until  recent  times  has  been 
solely  in  the  hands  of  the  papal  church.  No  one  even  dared 
to  step  outside  the  church  curriculum  under  penalty  of 
eternal  damnation. 

Here  they  are.  Take  a  long  look  at  them.  England  and 
North  Europe  had  free  education.  Men  could  think,  and 
thinking  expands  the  desire  to  know  more.  One  shows 
an  illiteracy  of  from  less  than  1%  to  9%,  the  Papal  coun¬ 
tries  from  60%  to  95%.  Protestant  countries  are  young, 
compared  to  the  Papal  countries.  Observe  the  difference 
and  draw  your  own  conclusions.  As  you  ponder  these  things 
in  your  mind  just  ask  yourself  this  simple  question:  Do 
you  want  the  Roman  Catholic  Hierarchy  to  get  a  footing 
in  our  own  America ? 

It  does  not  matter  if  you  are  a  Roman  Catholic  or  a 
Protestant.  You  may  be  the  parent  of  children  and  have  an 
ambition  to  see  your  children  the  equal  of  any.  Can  you 
afford  then  to  risk  the  training  of  your  child  to  a  system 
whose  influence  has  the  effect  which,  authentic  history  and 
personal  observation  show  you,  obtain  in  the  countries  men¬ 
tioned?  Just  take  one  glance  at  South  America  today.  It 
is  a  country  teeming  with  natural  resources  to  astonish  the 


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world.  Natural  transportation  has  always  equaled  our 
country.  Soil,  climate,  forest,  minerals  continue  to  await 
development,  though  it  has  had  the  Papal  System  almost 
two  centuries  longer  than  Protestant  America  has  been  set¬ 
tled.  The  catechism  has  had  undisputed  sway  for  four 
hundred  years  and  the  parochial  school  equally  as  long.13 
Just  look  for  yourself,  then  glance  at  the  Philippines  now 
being  fleeced  by  popery  under  the  protection  of  the  Stars 
and  Stripes.  It  is  costing  us  millions  of  dollars  per  year  to 
hold  the  Filipinos  while  the  Papacy  shears  the  lambs. 

Do  you  want  such  a  simoom  to  strike  our  fair  America? 
Do  you  want  it  even  to  get  any  footing  with  your  people? 
Are  you  so  selfish  that  it  makes  no  difference  to  you  just 
so  you  are  not  disturbed  ?  Is  your  patriotism  so  thin-skinned 
that  you  recognize  no  obligation  to  the  million  and  more  of 
immigrants  coming  to  our  shores  to  become  American  citi¬ 
zens?  Have  you  no  debt  to  discharge  for  the  benefit  of 


13.  Says  Bishop  Thos.  B.  Neely,  in  his  South  America:  “The 
Roman  Catholic  Church  in  South  America  has  been  a  sad  failure. 
It  had  before  it  a  great  opportunity.  For  centuries  it  had  the  entire 
field,  without  a  competitor.  It  has  failed  to  develop  a  spiritual 
Christianity  to  give  the  people  freedom,  either  political  or  religious, 
to  enlighten  and  make  the  people  intelligent  or  greatly  to  better  their 
social  condition.” 

Says  the  Brazilian  Journal:  “The  heritage  which  Spain  and 
Portugal  left  their  South  American  colonies  under  papal  rule  was 
priestly  tyranny  and  corruption ,  ignorance  of  the  masses  and  illegiti¬ 
macy;  defective  morality,  superstition,  bigotry  or  open  unbelief; 
external  forms  of  religion  degenerated  into  downright  idolatry, 
chronic  revolutions  and  bankruptcy.” 

Right  in  line  with  the  Bishop’s  words,  Mr.  Walter  Scott  Lee 
says :  “Knowing  the  corrupt  lives  of  the  priests,  it  is  hardly  neces¬ 
sary  to  say  that  the  most  unspeakable  corruption  is  prevalent  every¬ 
where  in  all  classes  of  society.” 

To  this  may  be  added  the  words  of  Dr.  Francis  E.  Clark  in 
his  reference  to  South  America:  “Like  priest,  like  people.  The 
immprality  of  the  priests  is  doubtless  one  reason  for  the  looseness 
of  the  family  tie  in  all  parts  of  South  America.” 


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posterity?  Is  that  charitable  spirit  in  you  really  honest, 
or  is  it  nurtured  by  selfish  motives  ? 

This  sort  of  questions  is  facing  Americans  today  as 
never  before.  You  must  assist  in  deciding  them  or  play  the 
traitor  to  posterity. 

Read  the  history  of  Europe  from  Constantine  to  the 
beginning  of  the  last  century  and  ponder  the  influence  of 
Popery  during  the  centuries.  Then  read  the  history  of 
America  from  A.  D.  1770  to  A.  D.  1870  and  see  the  progress 
of  civilization.  One  was  held  in  the  grasp  of  the  Papal 
System,  the  other  wholly  Protestant. 

“Choose  ye  this  day  whom  ye  will  serve” 

If  the  reader  desires  us  to  be  more  specific  in  our  charge, 
we  do  not  object.  We  shall  therefore  show  that  the  simoom 
of  the  papacy  has  warped  and  withered  these  nations  over 
which  it  has  ruled  intellectually,  morally  and  financially. 

1.  Intellectually. 

Mr.  Ernest  Phillips  of  London,  in  his  most  admirable 
book,  Papal  Merchandise ,  names  eight  Roman  Catholic 
countries — Italy,  Belgium,  Portugal,  Spain,  Brazil,  France, 
Hungary,  Austria  and  Venezuela — with  a  combined  area  of 
4,452,275  square  miles  and  *a  population  of  148,087,027,  of 
which  the  average  is  92  per  cent  Roman  Catholic  and  the  per 
cent  of  illiteracy  is  sixty. 

Now  take  the  following  eight  Protestant  countries,  and 
note  the  result:  Victoria,  Sweden,  Switzerland,  Nether¬ 
lands,  Germany,  'Denmark,  Great  Britain  and  the  United 
States,  with  an  area  of  4,134,309  square  miles,  have  a  popu¬ 
lation  of  80  per  cent  Protestant  and  the  illiteracy  is  only 
four  per  cent. 


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* 

The  following  statistics  were  taken  from  the  Statesman's 
Year  Book  for  1887 :14 


Per  Cent 

Papal  Countries.  Illiterates. 

Austria .  39 

Hungary .  42 

Italy .  48 

Portugal  .  82 

Spain  .  63 

Ireland .  21 

Belgium  .  12 


Protestant  Countries. 

Germany . 

Denmark . 

Norway . 

Sweden . 

Switzerland 

England . 

Scotland . 


Less  than  1  % 
Less  than  1  % 
Less  than  1% 
Less  than  1  % 

. 2y2% 

. .  9% 

. 7% 


On  July  16,  1910,  The  American  Citizen,  East  Orange, 
N.  J.,  published  these  figures : 


Per  Cent  Am’t  Per  Capita 
Country.  Illiterates,  for  Education. 

Germany .  2  $2.28 

England .  9  1.24 

France .  11  1.34 

Ireland,  Lower .  52  1.24 

Ireland,  Upper .  21  1.24 

Hungary .  53  .42 

Bohemia .  59  .44 


14.  Papal  Merchandise. 


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5  7 


Italy,  Upper .  53  .77 

Italy,  Central .  74  .77 


Says  Mr.  Phillips  :15  The  latest  evidence  of  Rome’s 
opposition  to  elementary  education  is  to  be  found  in  a  Home 
Office  return  just  issued,  which  gives  the  number  of  illiterate 
voters  at  the  general  election,  January,  1910.  The  figures 
are  as  follows: 

Countries.  Total  Poll.  Illiterates. 

England  and  Wales .  5,770,243  17,151 

Scotland .  660,442  2,044 

Ireland .  220,529  22,515 


On  examination  we  find  that  the  number  of  illiterates  in 
each  thousand  polled  would  appear  to  be  as  follows : 


England  and  W ales .  2.97 

Scotland .  3.09 

Ireland .  120.09 


Was  Mr.  F.  Hugh  O’Donnell  wrong16  when  he  speaks  of 
Roman  Catholic  Education  in  Ireland  in  these  words : 
“There  is  perhaps  no  factor  of  Irish  decay  more  potent  in 
evil  than  the  ignorant,  slovenly,  superficial,  pietistic  parody 
of  instruction,  which  is  the  fate  of  the  Irish  school  girl. 
In  fact,  the  root  of  the  thriftless  Irish  home  is  the  Nun 
School,  just  as  the  root  of  the  Irish  National  ignorance  is  in 
the  clericalized  monopoly  of  all  education.  The  female  cler¬ 
icalism,  like  the  male  clericalism  starves  the  brains  of  the 
laity  by  bad  education,  and  forbids  their  employment  when 
they  survive  the  starvation.”  To  the  testimony  of  Mr. 
O’Donnell  another  great  Irish  Roman  Catholic  offers  the 


15.  Papal  Merchandise,  page  177. 

16.  Ruin  of  Education  in  Ireland. 


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following  testimony  to  the  impotency  and  sham  of  Roman 
Catholic  education.  Mr.  M.  J.  F.  McCarthy,  after  showing 
the  preponderance  of  Protestant  business  and  professional 
men  in  Ireland,  says:  “Why,  then,  is  there  this  preponder¬ 
ance  of  Protestants?  I  say  it  because  there  is  a  more  gen¬ 
eral  ability  and  business  capacity  amongst  them,  and  it  is 
easier  to  pick  out  good  practical  men  on  that  side  than  on 
our  side.  Why  is  there  more  general  ability  and  worldly 
capacity  amongst  them?  I  have  before  remarked  how  the 
leaven  of  'Superior’  education  is  three  times  as  great  in 
proportion  to  the  Mass  amongst  the  Protestants  as  amongst 
the  Catholics.” 

Do  we  want  this  System  in  America f 

In  the  words  of  the  American  Citizen ,  June  25,  1910,  we 
say :  “A  religious  system  that  turns  out,  or  tolerates,  as  you 
please,  an  average  of  seventy  illiterates  out  of  every  hundred 
inhabitants  of  the  countries  it  controls,  we  wish  to  have  no 
hand  or  voice  in  our  public  education. 

We  must  reject  any  interference  from  a  system  which 
produces  on  an  average  nearly  fifteen  times  as  many  igno¬ 
rant  adults  as  are  found  in  Protestant  countries.  This  class 
of  facts  meets  us  at  every  point  where  we  find  the  Roman 
Catholic  Church  in  control.  For  example,  the  New  York 
Evening  Post ,  taking  its  figures  from  the  Argentine  paper, 
the  Buenos  Ayres  Standard ,  gives  the  following  striking 
comparison  between  Protestant  Australia  and  Roman  Cath¬ 
olic  Argentina:  “The  two  countries  are  alike  in  having 
about  the  same  area  and  population  and  may  be  said  to  have 
started  upon  their  course  in  modern  civilization  at  nearly 
the  same  time,  but  in  other  respects  there  is  marked  dissimi¬ 
larity.  Australia  has  a  public  revenue  of  £29,200,000  against 
£4,400,000  for  Argentina,  and  a  foreign  commerce  amount- 


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ing  to  £132,200,000  against  £34,200,000.  Most  striking  of 
all  is  the  comparison  which  relates  to  educational  statistics : 


Argentina.  Australia. 

Schools .  3,233  7,282 

Teachers .  7,054  15,083 

Pupils .  249,700  745,300 

Cost . £520,000  £2,280,000 


“The  reader  has  noticed  the  difference.  What  is  the 
cause  of  such  wide  disparity?  Age,  area,  soil,  climate,  trans¬ 
portation,  population  are  about  the  same.” 

What  makes  the  difference f 

This  is  the  result  of  the  influence  of  the  “Holy  Mother 
Church”  upon  the  nations.  The  ratio  of  four  to  sixty  per 
cent  is  a  vast  gulf  out  on  to  which  every  American  should 
gaze  steadfastly,  thoughtfully,  earnestly,  sympathetically, 
before  he  votes  the  privilege  to  the  Papal  Hierarchy  to  take 
possession  of  our  public  school  system. 

2 — Morality. 

The  question  here  concerning  us  is,  what  of  the  moral 
effect  of  the  Papacy  upon  the  nations ?  It  is  a  most  pro¬ 
foundly  important  question  to  ask,  since  America  is  to  be 
brought  under  the  Papal  System. 

As  we  have  so  often  done  in  the  past,  we  again  invite 
the  reader  to  consider  the  nations  existing  under  the  direct 
influence  of  Roman  Catholicism. 

In  other  words,  can  the  good  people  of  Portugal,  Spain, 
Italy,  Mexico  and  South  America  be  classed  as  maintain¬ 
ing  as  high  a  code  of  morals  as  the  United  States,  Scandi¬ 
navia,  England,  Scotland  and  Wales?  Glance  at  the  ratio 
of  illegitimacy  as  set  forth  in  another  chapter  before  you 
make  up  your  mind.  Think  of  the  predominance  of  saloon¬ 
keepers,  estimated  at  95%  of  the  total  number  who  are 


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members  of  that  system.  Is  it  true  or  is  it  not  true,  that 
the  Papal  System  fails  to  nurture  and  develop  those  higher 
instincts  in  the  human  mind ?  Is  it  wrong  to  charge  that  it 
seems  to  deaden  those  finer  qualities,  those  loftier  aspira¬ 
tions  which  Protestantism  has  developed?  These  questions 
are  pertinent  to  the  issue  and  should  be  candidly  disposed  of 
before  the  final  verdict  is  rendered. 

Rome  has  ruled  Spain,  Portugal  and  Italy  for  fourteen 
centuries.  Behold  these  unfortunate  nations  today  and  see 
the  moral  effect  of  Romanism.  Would  any  sane  person  for 
a  moment  contend  that  the  people  of  Mexico,  Peru  and  the 
Philippines  stand  as  high  in  the  scale  of  morals  as  America? 
They  have  had  the  doctrines  of  Romanism  dealt  out  to  them 
for  four  centuries  under  the  direct  supervision  of  infallibil¬ 
ity.  The  very  true,  real  and  direct  oracles  of  the  Eternal 
God  have  been  handed  out  to  them  right  hot  off  the  reel. 

Now,  in  all  seriousness,  if  Romanism  be  such  an  uplift¬ 
ing  power,  such  a  moral  force,  such  an  elevating  influence, 
then,  why  did  it  not  uplift  those  nations  over  which  it  exer¬ 
cised  the  rule ? 

Look  back  in  your  mind  for  fourteen  hundred  years  and 
behold  the  millions  of  people  who  have  come  into  the  world, 
went  into  abject  slavery  of  conscience  and  intellect,  and 
passed  on  to  eternity  without  rising  much,  if  any,  above  the 
brute  of  the  field. 

Why  did  the  System  not  lift  them  up f 

It  is  the  proud  claim  of  such  distinguished  prelates  as 
Cardinal  Gibbons  and  Archbishop  John  Ireland,  that  Rom¬ 
anism  is  the  one  sole,  and  exclusive  uplifting,  and  civiliz¬ 
ing  force  known  under  Heaven.  Suppose  we  accept  the 
definition  of  these  two  prelates  as  true.  How,  then,  under 
heaven  can  we  reconcile  actual  results  with  their  claim?  In 


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these  pages  we  give  merely  an  inkling  of  the  real  influence 
of  Romanism  as  a  power  to  uplift  humanity  and  advance 
civilization.  France,  Spain,  Italy,  Portugal,  South  America, 
Mexico,  and  the  islands  of  the  seas,  are  living  monuments  to 
the  supreme  fallacy  of  their  claim.  We  challenge  either  or 
both  of  these  men  to  show  one  single  nation  under  the  blue 
vault  of  heaven,  where  Romanism  has  dominated,  that 
nation  was  not  sunken  in  degradation,  squalor,  misery, 
ignorance,  superstition,  moral  degeneracy,  and  commercial 
bankruptcy.  We  dare  either  of  these  men  to  deny  our 
charge. 

We  can  appreciate,  that  from  their  standpoint,  our  claim 
falls  short  of  being  appreciated.  We  know  that  the  best 
Roman  Catholics  on  earth,  are  those  steeped  in  ignorance 
and  superstition.  We  have  learned  long  ago  that  abject 
subservience  and  unquestioned  obedience  constitute  the  es¬ 
sentials  of  high  standing  in  the  Roman  Catholic  Church. 

The  longing  for  enlightenment  is  a  mortal  sin ,  and  inde¬ 
pendence  of  thought  an  unpardonable  crime.  Obedience 
is  a  larger  word  than  all  the  knowledge  in  the  world.  In¬ 
telligence  and  morals  are  mere  toys  compared  to  Obedience. 
It  is  a  greater  sin  to  deny  the  miraculous  power  of  St. 
Anne’s  shinbone  than  it  is  to  deny  the  existence  of  Almighty 
God. 

Morality  indicates  enlightenment,  and  enlightenment  is 
the  grave  of  superstitious  obedience,  without  which  the 
Romish  graft  and  sham  cannot  flourish.  Ignorance  and 
superstition  are  the  parents  of  immorality,  crime,  degrada¬ 
tion,  squalor,  mob  and  murder.  They  are  the  stepping- 
stones  to  the  growth  and  prosperity  of  Roman  Catholicism. 

3. — Romanism  cmd  Crime. 

Believing  in  the  Christian  religion  with  all  our  heart  we 


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bring  this  accusation  with  sad  regrets.  To  charge  the  Roman 
Catholic  system  of  religion  with  producing  criminals  in- 
undue  proportions  we  fully  appreciate  is  a  grave  charge. 

Suffer  us  to  first  state  our  case  plainly  that  it  be  not  mis¬ 
understood.  Our  contention  is  that  the  result  of  the  train¬ 
ing  given  the  people  by  the  Papal  system  tends  to  produce  an 
overplus  of  criminals  which  in  point  of  numbers  is  far  in 
excess  of  the  ratio  of  evangelical  religious  sects.  In  our 
charge  we  do  not  mean  to  leave  the  impression  that  the  peo¬ 
ple  themselves  are  more  susceptible  to  crime,  or  more  vicious 
in  their  natures,  but  that  the  general  influence  of  Papal 
teaching  fails  to  impress,  or  too  feebly  impresses,  its  sub¬ 
jects  with  the  enormity  of  wrongdoing;  that  it  provides  no 
safe-guards  to  protect  its  subjects;  that  it  falls  short  of 
encouraging  and  influencing  and  uplifting  and  instilling  into 
its  disciples  those  traits  of  character  which  raise  them  above 
the  lower  strata  of  society;  hence  the  preponderance  of 
crime  is  much  more  evident  among  the  subjects  of  the 
Papacy  than  among  any  or  all  religious  organizations.  With 
this  statement  of  the  case  we  shall  proceed  to  introduce 
our  evidence  support  of  this  charge. 

Let  us  tarry  to  say  that  the  array  of  witnesses  we  shall 
introduce  to  the  jury  is  fully  competent  to  testify  on  this 
subject,  because  they  are  in  every  respect  acquainted  with 
the  subject  and  have  been  for  many  centuries.  Some  of 
these  witnesses  are  still  trusting  the  Virgin  Mary  for  salva¬ 
tion  at  this  moment,  and  to  the  priest  to  get  them  out  of 
purgatory. 

The  first  witness  we  shall  call  to  the  stand  is  staid  old 
Scotland. 

Question — We  show  you  the  report  of  your  penal  insti¬ 
tutions  for  the  year  1902.  Will  you  state  to  the  jury  the 


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number  of  criminals  confined  in  your  institutions  during  the 
year  1902? 

Answer — Our  statistics  show  2,905  criminals  confined 
for  the  year  1902. 

O. — What  per  cent  of  your  total  population  is  Roman 
Catholic  ? 

A. — Only  about  10  per  cent. 

Q. — You  have  testified  that  you  have  2,905  criminals 
confined;  will  you  tell  the  jury  how  many  of  this  number 
would  equal  the  per  cent  of  Roman  Catholics  according  to 
the  population  of  that  sect  in  your  country? 

A. — About  two  hundred  ninety. 

Q. — How  many  of  the  2,905  convicts  you  hold  are 
Roman  Catholics  ? 

A. — The  records  show  just  1,092. 

Q. — Then  your  statistics  show  you  have  almost  four 
times  as  many  Romanist  criminals  as  the  Papal  population 
would  warrant. 

A. — That  is  correct. 

The  witness  may  be  excused  for  the  present  and  we  will 
call  England  to  the  stand. 

Question. — Where  are  you  located? 

Answer. — At  the  ’Ub  of  the  Huniverse. 

Q. — Do  you  have  penal  institutions  at  the  hub  of  the 
universe? 

A. — ’Pon  my  word,  we  do. 

Q. — How  many  persons  have  you  confined  in  these  in¬ 
stitutions  ? 

A. — In  the  year  1906  we  had  23,806  convicts.17 

Q. — Of  this  number  how  many  were  Protestants? 


17.  Prison  Register,  1906. 


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A. — At  the  date  mentioned  we  had  18,428  who  claimed 
to  be  Protestants. 

Q. — How  many  of  the  total  number  were  Papists? 

A. — The  records  show  there  were  5,378. 

O. — -What  per  cent  of  your  population  are  Romanists? 

A. — Only  about  5  per  cent. 

Q. — Then  your  5  per  cent  of  Romanists  furnished  about 
five  times  its  ratio  of  criminals? 

A. — That  is  correct  according  to  our  statistics. 

The  next  witness  we  will  call  is  the  City  of  Rome. 

0. — What  was  your  population  in  the  year  1898? 

A. — My  population  in  the  year  1898  was  274,000. 

Q. — During  the  year  mentioned  is  it  not  a  fact  that  you 
sheltered  within  your  confines  the  head  of  the  entire  Papal 
System  ? 

A. — That  is  true. 

Q. — Is  it  not  a  fact  that  the  Pope;  the  alleged  head,  the 
sole  and  direct  representative  of  Almighty  God  on  earth, 
was  watching  over  the  Papists  in  your  city  during  the  year 
1898? 

A. — That  statement  is  true. 

Q. — In  view  of  this  admission  is  it  not  a  most  natural 
assumption  to  expect  that  the  universal  and  sole  head  of  the 
Papacy  would  have  direct  and  moral  influence  upon  his 
subjects  who  reside  right  under  the  eaves  of  his  holy  sanctum 
sanctorum  ? 

A. — One  would  naturally  suppose  so,  at  least. 

Q. — Will  you  please  state  to  the  jury  the  number  of 
murders  committed  in  your  city  during  the  year  1898? 

A. — The  records  show  the  number  to  be  128. 

Q. — I  will  ask  you  if  it  is  not  a  fact  that  your  popula¬ 
tion  is  almost  wholly  Romanists? 


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A. — It  is. 

That  will  do  and  we  will  call  the  city  of  London  to  the 
stand. 

Question. — You  are  the  largest  city  in  the  world? 

Answer. — I  am. 

Q. — What  is  your  population? 

A. — The  population  of  London  proper  is  four  and  one- 
half  millions,  and  of  Greater  London  the  population  is  equal 
to  seven  and  one-quarter  millions. 

Q. — Your  population  is  largely  of  the  Protestant  faith, 
is  it  not? 

A. — Yes,  it  is. 

Q. — How  many  murders  were  committed  in  your  city 
during  the  year  1898? 

A. — Just  seventeen. 

You  may  be  excused  for  the  present  while  we  call  the  at¬ 
tention  of  the  jury  to  the  testimony  of  the  last  two  witnesses 
examined.  Rome,  with  a  population  almost  wholly  Roman 
Catholics,  had  128  murders,  while  London,  with  her  seven 
and  one-quarter  millions  of  people,  had  seventeen  murders. 
In  other  words,  Papal  Rome,  about  eighteen  times  as  small, 
contributed  about  seven  and  one-half  times  more  murders 
than  the  city  of  London.18 

We  will  again  call  Scotland  to  the  stand. 

Q. — You  will  please  state  the  number  of  convictions  for 
murder  in  your  country  for  the  years  1886  to  1905  inclusive. 

A. — Twenty-four,  according  to  our  records. 

Q. — Your  population  numbers  about  the  same  as  that 
of  Ireland,  does  it  not? 

A. — It  does. 


18.  The  Roman  Catholic  Universe ,  Jan.  22,  1899. 


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That  will  be  all  for  this  time.  Ireland  will  please  take 
the  stand. 

Q. — For  the  years  1886  to  1905,  inclusive,  how  many 
persons  were  convicted  of  murder  in  your  country? 

A. — If  you  mane  how  miny  murthers  were  committed, 
Hiven  only  knows.  The  records  show  siventy-three  con¬ 
victions  during  the  years  ye  mintion. 

Q. — Then  you  are  charged  with  three  times  as  many 
murders  during  the  years  1886  to  1905  as  is  charged  up 
against  your  next  door  neighbor,  Scotland,  are  you  not  ? 

A. — B’  gorry  it' looks  loike  it. 

That  will  do  and  you  may  step  aside. 

Before  we  call  another  witness  we  want  to  state  to  the 
jury  that  we  are  not  compelled  to  call  all  our  witnesses  from 
across  the  water  in  order  to  show  the  Papal  System  engen¬ 
ders  crime.  The  proof  exists  in  our  own  land  as  we  shall 
proceed  to  show. 

We  will  now  call  to  the  stand  a  state  attentively  watched 
over  by  a  high  dignitary  of  the  Papal  System,  and  a  state 
where  the  Papal  flag  takes  precedence  over  the  glorious  stars 
and  stripes,  while  our  chief  executive  wines  and  dines  with 
those  under  oath  to  pay  allegiance  to  a  foreign  power 
before  they  consider  their  duty  to  their  adopted  country. 
Will  Massachusetts  please  take  the  stand? 

Q. — I  hand  you  this  little  booklet  and  will  ask  you  to 
be  so  kind  as  to  tell  this  jury  what  it  is. 

A. — This  is  the  report  of  the  chaplain  of  the  state  pri¬ 
son  at  Concord,  Mass. 

Q. — How  many  convicts  does  this  report  show  in  the 
Concord  prison? 

A. — Some  five  hundred  and  sixty. 

Q. — Of  this  number  how  many  are  Romanists? 


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A. — Four  hundred. 

Q. — What  proportion  is  this  ratio  to  the  Romanist 
population  of  the  state? 

A. — More  than  five  times  their  due  proportion. 

Q. — How  many  Romanists  among  them? 

A. — Approximately  seven-tenths  are  Romans. 

Q. — What  per  cent  of  the  prisoners  at  Deer  Island 
are  Romanists? 

A. — Seventy-five  per  cent. 

Q. — At  the  Cambridge  House  of  Correction  what  per 
cent  were  Roman  Catholic? 

A. — Ninety  per  cent. 

Q. — Boston  is  a  mighty  stronghold  of  the  Papacy  is 
is  not? 

A. — It  is. 

Q. — Boston  is  home  of  Cardinal  O’Connell,  is  it  not? 

A. — Yes,  it  is  during  the  time  he  is  not  out  yachting. 

That  accounts  for  it  all  and  you  may  be  excused. 

We  will  now  call  the  state  of  Missouri  to  the  stand. 

Question. — We  show  you  the  report  of  your  state  prison 
for  the  year  1909-1910.  From  page  sixteen  of  this  report 
will  you  tell  the  jury  how  many  convicts  were  confined  in 
that  institution? 

Answer. — Seventeen  hundred  ninety-two. 

Q. — How  many  of  these  claimed  church  affiliation? 

A. — Sixteen  hundred  and  nine. 

Q. — How/ many  religious  bodies  were  represented? 

A. — Sixteen. 

Q. — How  many  Romanists  on  the  list? 

A. — Three  hundred  and  forty-nine. 

Q. — This  would  mean,  then,  that  about  22  per  cent 
of  the  total  number  of  convicts  were  Romanists? 


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A. — That  is  correct. 

Q. — Then  are  we  to  understand  that  78  per  cent  of 
the  convicts  belonged  to  sixteen  religious  organizations, 
while  22  per  cent  belonged  to  one  organization? 

-  A. — That  is  correct. 

Q. — Will  you  state  how  many  of  these  convicts  were 
sent  up  from  the  city  of  St.  Louis? 

A. — Two  hunded  and  ninety-three. 

Q. — That  is  16  2/3  per  cent  of  the  total,  is  it  not? 

A. — It  is. 

Q. — How  do  you  account  for  this? 

A. — Some  have  intimated  that  a  part  of  this  may  be 
due  to  Priest  Phelen  who  uses  his  time  preaching  “to 
hell  with  our  government,”  instead  of  looking  after  the 
moral  up-lift  of  his  flock.  As  a  sovereign  state  I  have 
no  explanation  to  offer  for  the  remarkable  comparison 
you  have  brought  out. 

The  witness  may  give  place  and  the  state  of  Iowa 
take  the  stand. 

Question. — Handing  you  your  warden’s  report  of 
June,  1910,  will  you  refer  to  page  twenty-five  and  tell 
the  jury  how  many  commitments  were  made  to  your  in¬ 
stitution  for  the  years  1909-1910? 

A. — Three  hundred  and  sixty-five. 

Q. — How  many  gave  in  no  church  connection? 

A. — One  hundred  and  eighty. 

Q. — How  many  gave  affiliations? 

A. — One  hundred  and  eighty-five. 

Q. — How  many  religious  bodies  represented? 

A. — Fourteen. 

Q. — Of  the  185  you  mention,  how  many  were  Pa¬ 
pists? 


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A. — Fifty-nine. 

Q. — This  leaves  126,  does  it  not,  to  be  apportioned 
among  thirteen  religious  denominations? 

A. — Yes,  it  does. 

Q. — What  per  cent  of  church  affiliation  does  this 

i 

show? 

A. — About  30  per  cent. 

Q. — Then  about  one-third  of  the  convicts  who  showed 
any  church  affiliation  were  Roman  Catholics? 

A. — The  reports  so  show. 

The  state  of  Minnesota  will  please  take  the  witness 
chair. 

Q. — What  was  the  number  of  commitments  at  your 
prison  for  the  year  1890? 

A. — Two  hundred  and  nine. 

Q. — How  many  church  organizations  represented? 

A. — Twenty-one. 

Q. — Of  the  209  you  mention  as  having  been  received 
into  the  institution,  how  many  were  Romanists? 

A. — Ninety. 

0. — Do  you  mean  to  say  chat  more  than  40  per  cent 
of  the  church  members  you  received  were  Romanists? 

A. — I  merely  give  you  what  the  warden’s  report 
shows. 

Q. — How  far  is  the  state  prison  from  St.  Paul? 

A. — Probably  a  dozen  miles. 

Q. — Would  you  not  naturally  suppose  that  Arch¬ 
bishop  Ireland’s  long  career  in  your  state  would  have  had 
a  more  salutary  effect  on  Papists  as  to  have  reduced  this 
ratio  of  his  flock  of  criminals? 

A. — It  has  become  well  known  that  the  archbishop  is 
urging  his  Romanists  to  be  more  active  in  seeking  public 


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office,  especially  aspiring  to  the  higher  places  in  our  gov¬ 
ernment,  and  some  have  intimated  that  in  this  way  he 
means  to  keep  them  out  of  the  penitentiary.  Personally 
I  have  no  opinion  in  the  matter. 

You  may  be  excused.  The  next  witness  we  shall  call 
is  Illinois. 

Q. — Where  is  your  state  prison  located? 

A. — At  Joliet,  Ill. 

Q. — We  show  you  your  report  for  the  year  1908  and 
will  ask  you  to  tell  the  jury  how  many  persons  you  had 
in  this  institution  on  September  30,  1908? 

A. — Fifteen  hundred  and  forty. 

Q. — How  many  of  this  number  claimed  no  church 
membership? 

A. — Twenty-eight. 

Q. — How  many  were  or  had  been  church  members? 

A. — Fifteen  hundred  and  twelve. 

Q. — Of  this  number  how  many  were  Roman  Cath¬ 
olics? 

A. — Six  hundred  and  sixty-six. 

Q. — How  many  religious  sects  were  represented  all 
told? 

A. — Eighteen. 

Q. — Then  you  mean  to  say  that  seventeen  relijious 
denominations  represented  946,  an  average  of  about 
fifty-six,  while  the  Papal  church  stretched  its  saving  wings 
over  666? 

A. — That  is  what  the  warden’s  report  shows  and  is 
doubtless  correct. 

Q. — From  your  testimony  over  70  per  cent  of  the  con¬ 
victs  in  the  Illinois  state  prison  at  Joliet  on  the  thirtieth 


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day  of  September,  1908,  were  members  of  the  Roman 
Catholic  church? 

A. — Such  is  the  verdict  of  the  records  for  that  date. 

Q. — What  per  cent  of  the  convicts  were  sent  to  your 
prison  from  Cook  county  (Chicago),  Illinois? 

A. — About  68  per  cent. 

Q. — The  city  of  Chicago  comprises  about  one-third 
of  the  state’s  population,  does  it  not? 

A. — It  does. 

Q. — Then  how  do  you  account  for  more  than  two- 
thirds  of  the  convicts  coming  from  that  city?  It  has 
about  two  hundred  Roman  Catholic  churches,  numerous 
priestly  palaces,  schools  without  number,  nunneries 
galore,  retreats  here  and  there,  and  some  saloons  and 
bawdy  houses,  all  belonging  to  the  Papacy.  Would  it 
not  be  the  most  natural  thing  in  the  world  for  an  outsider 
to  assume  that  this  vast  aggregation  of  Papal  parapher¬ 
nalia  would  be  sufficient  to  hold  crime  in  check? 

A. — One  would  naturally  think  so. 

Q. — Chicago  is  the  chief  seat  of  the  Papacy  west  of 
New  York  and  Boston,  is  it  not? 

A. — It  is. 

You  may  step  aside  and  let  Massachusetts  take  the 
stand. 

Q. — Handing  you  this  little  pamphlet  will  you  please 
tell  the  jury  what  it  is? 

A. — This  is  the  report  of  the  Hon.  Dexter  A.  Haw¬ 
kins,  of  the  Massachusetts  public  and  parochial  schools. 

Q. — Will  you  tell  the  jury  how  many  criminals  this 
report  shows  per  ten  thousand  population  as  computed 
by  Mr.  Hawkins? 

A. — For  the  public  schools  he  shows  eleven  criminals 


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to  ten  thousand  population  and  he  also  shows  160  crim¬ 
inals  to  the  same  number  of  inhabitants  for  the  parochial 
schools. 

Q. — Can  you  give  the  jury  any  reason  for  the  marvel¬ 
ous  discrepancy  in  the  ratio  of  the  criminals  furnished 
by  these  two  classes  of  schools?  Cardinal  O’Connell  lives 
at  Boston  and  has  full  jurisdiction  over  the  youth  of 
Massachusetts,  and  it  is  no  stretch  of  the  imagination  to 
suppose  that  his  close  contact  with  his  youth  would  re¬ 
dound  to  the  moral  uplift  of  his  people,  would  it  not? 

A. — Possibly  you  have  forgotten  that  the  cardinal  is 
a  foreigner ;  he  believes  in  things  foreign,  even  to  the 
placing  of  a  foreign  flag  over  the  stars  and  stripes.  Fur¬ 
thermore,  he  is  much  engaged  with  state  and  national 
politics  and  it  may  be  the  poor  man  is  worked  to  death 
with  these  things  and  has  not  time  to  bother  with  so 
trivial  a  subject  as  the  youth  of  the  land. 

We  will  again  call  Scotland  to  testify  as  touching  two 
or  three  points. 

Q. — What  was  the  Roman  Catholic  population  of  Scot¬ 
land  in  1887? 

A. — According  to  the  home  secretary’s  report  it  was 
one-twentieth. 

Q. — Using  this  same  report  what  proportion  of  the 
criminals  were  Papists? 

A. — The  report  shows  that  one-half  of  the  criminals 
were  Romanists. 

The  next  witness  we  will  call  in  is  Australia. 

Q. — What  per  cent  of  your  population  are  Roman¬ 
ists? 

A. — The  statistics  show  about  three-tenths. 

Q. — What  per  cent  of  the  criminals  are  Romanists? 


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A. — One-half. 

You  may  step  aside  while  Ireland  takes  the  stand. 

Q. — What  ratio  of  your  population  are  Romanists? 

A. — Quite  two-thirds. 

Q. — What  per  cent  of  the  crimes  committed-  were 
committed  by  Romanists? 

A. — Statistics  show  that  six-sevenths  of  the  crime  i? 
chargeable  to  the  members  of  the  Papal  church. 

We  propose  at  this  time  calling  a  nation  to  testify, 
which  has  been  withered  and  warped  for  a  thousand  years 
by  the  Papal  hierarchy.  Will  France  please  take  the  stand? 

Q. — Do  you  now  maintain  a  free  public  school  sys- 
tern? 

A.— We  do. 

Q. — You  also  permit  parochial  sectarian  schools,  do 
you  not? 

A. — That  is  true. 

Q. — Have  you  at  any  time  made  a  comparison  of 
these  schools  along  the  lines  of  ascertaining  the  ratio  of 
criminals  furnished  by  the  two  systems? 

A. — We  have. 

Q. — You  will  please  give  the  jury  the  result  of 
your  comparisons. 

A. — This  subject  was  taken  up  some  time  ago  and  it 
was  found  that  while  our  public  schools  furnished  5.55 
crimes  and  22.29  offenses,  the  parochial  schools  furnished 
65.1  crimes  and  95.5  offenses,  the  reckoning  being  based 
on  ten  thousand  population. 

That  will  do  for  the  present.  We  will  again  ask  per¬ 
mission  to  place  on  the  stand  a  nation  which  has  had  its 
full  share  of  suffering  at  the  hands  of  the  Papal  church. 
Ireland  will  please  take  the  stand. 


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Q. — Some  time  ago  you  had  occasion  to  compile  an 
official  report  concerning  juvenile  offenders,  did  you  not? 

A. — B’  gorry  and  we  did  sor. 

Q. — What  is  the  sum  and  substance  of  that  report? 

A. — Faith,  and  we  found  in  our  reform  schools  1,099 
juveniles. 

Q. — How  were  they  divided  as  to  religious  belief? 

A. — The  report  shows  there  were  143  Protestants  and 
956  Romanists. 

Q. — You  testified  some  little  time  ago  that  only  about 
two-thirds  of  your  population  were  adherents  to  the 
Papal  church,  did  you  not? 

A. — I  did,  sor. 

Q. — Then  with  66  per  cent  of  the  population  the  Ro¬ 
manists  furnished  almost  90  per  cent  of  the  derelicts? 

A. — That  is  true,  sor. 

Gentlemen  of  the  jury;  I  shall  not  tax  your  patience 
with  questioning  many  more  witnesses,  but  my  interest  in 
our  neighbor,  Mexico,  prompts  me  to  ask  a  few  ques¬ 
tions  before  I  rest  my  case.  Will  Mexico  please  take  the 
stand  for  just  a  moment? 

Q. — How  long  has  your  land  been  under  the  rule  of 
the  Papacy? 

A. — Almost  400  years. 

Q. — Do  you  maintain  a  public  school  system? 

A. — Yes,  since  the  last  fifty  years. 

Q. — Then  you  formerly  did  not  have  such  a  system? 

A. — No,  we  had  parochial  schools. 

Q. — What  is  the  per  cent  of  illiterates  in  your  coun¬ 

try? 

A. — It  is  now  about  93  per  cent,  but  formerly,  when 


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the  church  had  the  education  of  our  youth,  the  percent¬ 
age  of  illiterates  was  far  greater. 

Q. — At  that  time  you  maintained  many  monasteries 
and  nunneries,  did  you  not? 

A.— We  did. 

Q. — The  monks  and  nuns  largely  had  the  education 
of  the  youth  in  hand,  did  they  not? 

A. — Si,  signor. 

Q. — How  do  you  account  for  the  laxity  in  education 
with  so  many  teachers? 

A. — They  do  not  teach  the  youth  how  to  live ;  they 
teach  them  how  to  die. 

Q. — Then,  that,  in  part,  accounts,  in  your  mind,  why 
your  country  has  been  dead  to  the  world  for  four  cen¬ 
turies? 

A. — You  can  draw  your  own  conclusions. 

We  next  call  Allegheny  County,  Pa. 

Q. — We  hand  you  this  report,  will  you  explain  to  the 
jury  what  it  is  ? 

A. — This  is  the  Allegheny,  Pa.,  Workhouse  and  In¬ 
ebriate  report  for  the  year  1912. 

Q. — How  many  inmates  in  this  institution  on  the 
date  named? 

A. — There  were  3,674  persons. 

Q. — Of  this  number  how  many  were  Roman  Cath¬ 
olics  ? 

A. — There  were  2,016  Roman  Catholics. 

Q. — Then  the  Roman  Catholics,  with  about  23%  of 
the  population  of  Allegheny  County,  furnished  10%  more 
prisoners  than  all  the  religious  sects  combined?  In  other 
words,  with  less  than  25%  of  the  population  they  furnish 
about  60%  of  all  the  criminals. 


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A. — This  is  what  the  report  shows. 

We  next  call  Arizona. 

Q. — Your  state  has  a  penitentiary,  has  it  not? 

A. — It  has. 

Q. — We  hand  you  the  year  book  of  this  penitentiary 
for  the  year  ending  June  30,  1913.  Please  read  to  the 
jury  the  religious  statistics  of  this  institution. 

A. — This  report  shows  519  inmates  of  which  349  are 
Roman  Catholics,  and  100  divided  with  all  other  religi¬ 
ous  sects,  while  70  profess  no  religious  affiliations. 

Q. — Then  Arizona  parochial  schools  furnish  70% 
more  inmates  than  all  others  combined? 

A. — The  report  so  shows. 

Says  Mr.  Ernest  Phillips:19  “In  a  leading  article  on 
Criminal  Statistics  for  Scotland,  for  the  year  1901,  the 
Scotman  said:  Tf  Scotland  could  keep  out  the  Irish,  its 
crime  would  be  reduced  by  about  two-fifths.  On  the  last 
day  of  1901,  the  prisoners  in  the  Scottish  prisons  consisted 
of  1,620  Scots,  167  English,  1092  Irish,  and  26  foreigners. 
The  religious  denominations  were:  1,633  Presbyterians,  165 
Episcopalians,  1,103  Roman  Catholics,  and  4  of  other  de¬ 
nominations.  The  Roman  Catholics  are  about  ten  per  cent 
of  the  population,  so  with  all  their  claims  and  pretensions, 
they  are  about  five  times  as  criminal  as  the  Protestants.’  ” 

Statistics  taken  from  the  census  of  1870,  show  to  each 
ten  thousand  population,  how  nearly  parochial  schools  come 
to  squaring  with  our  public  schools. 


Illiter¬ 

ates. 

By  Public  Schools  of  21  States.  . .  .  350 
By  Roman  Catholic  Schools . 1,400 


Paup-  Crim- 

ers.  inals. 

170  75 

410  160 


19.  Papal  Merchandise,  p.  185. 


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“In  the  state  of  New  York  the  Roman  Catholic  Parochial 
School  System  turns  out  three  and  a  half  times  as  many 
paupers,  criminals  and  moral  degenerates  as  the  public 
school  system.  No  wonder  Macaulay  says  of  Ultra-Mon¬ 
tane  Education,  that  under  its  power  the  loveliest  and  most 
fertile  provinces  of  Europe  have  been  sunk  in  poverty, 
political  servitude,  and  intellectual  torpor.” 

It  is  not  surprising  that  such  conditions  exist  when  the 
leaders  harbor  those  pagan  opinions  credited  to  one  of  the 
leading  Papal  publications.  “We.  do  not,  indeed,  prize  as 
highly  as  some  of  our  countrymen  appear  to  do,  the  ability 
to  read,  write,  and  cipher.  We  believe  that  the  peasantry 
in  Catholic  countries  two  centuries  ago  were  better  educated, 
though  for  the  most  part  unable  to  read  and  write,  than 
are  the  American  people  today.”20 

The  foregoing  furnishes  most  serious  thought  to  every 
American,  be  he  Protestant  or  Papist.  No  man  can  go  be¬ 
hind  these  statistics.  They  are  accepted  as  correct  by  the 
various  departments  of  governments  and  given  out  with¬ 
out  one  challenge  as  to  their  correctness. 

What  does  it  all  mean? 

We  leave  it  for  the  American  who  thinks  we  stand  in  no 
danger  from  the  aggression  of  the  Papal  Hierarchy  to  de¬ 
cide  for  himself.  Suffer  us  one  question  in  concluding. 
Do  we  want  Rome  rule  or  Home  rule  in  our  Fair  America? 

Our  charge  is  that  the  education  imparted  by  the  Papal 
System  tends  to  deaden  the  enormity  of  wrong-doing;  that 
it  educates  its  subjects  to  fear  eternal  torment  and  unques- 
tioningly  accept  the  Papal  Catechism,  and  thus  become 
good  Papists  at  the  expense  of  leaving  undeveloped  those 


20.  Catholic  Review,  April,  1871. 


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finer  qualities  and  loftier  aspirations  which  make  real  men 
and  women. 

Were  our  charges  untrue,  pray  tell  us  why  the  morals  of 
those  nations  living  for  centuries  under  Papal  influence 
have  ever  been  at  the  lowest  ebb?  Would  any  sane  person 
attempt  to  prove  that  Papal  nations  stand.as  high  morally  as 
Northern  Europe  or  the  United  States?  Let  us  not  over¬ 
look  the  fact  that  the  same  power  of  the  priestcraft  in 
America  would  mean  precisely  the  same  conditions  with 
us  as  obtain  in  Papal  countries  now  and  in  the  past.  No 
one  can  deny  that  the  standard  of  our  present  morality  is 
influenced  by  the  withering  breath  of  the  Papacy.  The  ob¬ 
servance  of  the  Sabbath  day  has  lost  much  of  its  Puritan 
atmosphere.  Sunday  baseball,  picnics,  beer  parties  and  the 
like  are  largely  the  influence  of  Papal  teaching. 

In  1852  the  well-known  Dr.  Wylie  summed  up  Popery 
in  these  words : 

“It  depopulates  kingdoms,  annihilates  industry,  destroys 
commerce,  corrupts  governments,  arrests  justice,  under¬ 
mines  order,  breeds  revolution,  extinguishes  morality,  and 
nourishes  a  brood  of  monstrous  vices,  murder,  perjury, 
adultery,  indolence  and  theft,  massacres  and  wars.  It  en¬ 
feebles  and  destroys  the  race  of  man,  and  annihilates  the 
very  cement  of  society.  Popery  has  been  on  its  trial  for 
many  centuries ;  and  evil  are  the  effects  which  it  has  pro¬ 
duced  under  Heaven  where  it  has  existed.  It  is  truly  the 
abomination  that  maketh  desolate 

The  Forty-Third  Annual  Report  of  the  Allegheny 
County  Workhouse  and  Inebriate  Asylum  for  1912  givesf 
the  following  table  of  statistics.  According  to  this  report 
there  were  3,674  inmates  in  this  institution,  divided  accord¬ 
ing  to  the  following : 


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Roman  Catholics  . 2,016 

Methodists  .  529 

Baptists  .  408 

Presbyterians  .  291 

Lutherans  .  180 

Episcopalians  .  60 

Jews .  29 

Other  Sects .  78 

No  Church  affiliation .  83 


The  Parochial  Schools  turned  out  almost  10%  more  in¬ 
mates  than  all  the  denominations  combined.  As  a  rule  good 
Papists  are  necessarily  paupers. 

The  Bisbee  Daily  Review  gives  the  following  statistics, 
taken  from  the  Warden’s  report  of  the  Arizona  penitentiary, 


dated  June  30,  1913 : 

Roman  Catholics  . 249 

Protestants .  96 

Mormons  .  2 

Buddhists  .  1 

Salvation  Army  .  1 

No  Religion .  70 


The  Parochial  Schools  of  Arizona  seem  to  be  perform¬ 
ing  their  task  well  to  give  us  almost  70%  more  convicts 
than  all  others  combined.  What  if  the  Parochial  School 
were  general  all  over  America  f 

The  Minnesota  penitentiary  is  located  at  Stillwater, 
Minn.,  and  about  twelve  miles  from  Archbishop  John  Ire¬ 
land’s  $100,000  dome.  It  is  a  model  institution,  under  the 
supervision  of  Warden  Wolfer. 

Note  the  following,  which  was  taken  from  an  issue 
of  the  “Menace 


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Looks  Bad  For  Rome. 

“A  friend  of  ours  in  Minnesota  has  just  sent  us  a  let « 
ter  from  the  Warden  of  the  State  penitentiary,  located  at 
Stillwater,  in  which  he  gives  our  friend  some  very  inter¬ 
esting  statistical  data  concerning  the  inmates  of  the  insti¬ 
tution,  at  the  close  of  the  fiscal  year,  July  31,  1912.  The 
number  of  inmates  at  that  time  was  824,  and  their  religious 


affiliations  were  as  follows : 

Adventists  .  4 

Baptists  .  28 

Catholics . 334 

Christians .  12 

Congregationalists  .  3 

Episcopalians .  20 

Evangelicans  .  3 

Friends  .  2 

Jewish .  7 

Lutherans . 150 

Methodists  .  67 

Mohammedans . ’. .  2 

No  Religion .  75 

Protestants  .  93 

Presbyterians  .  20 

Reform  Church  .  4 


Is  it  possible  that  the  public  schools  are  any  more  god¬ 
less  than  are  the  parochial  schools  which  produce  such  a 
large  percentage  of  the  inmates  of  the  Minnesota  state  peni¬ 
tentiary?  Let  “Father  Phelan”  answer. 

4. — Financial  aid  of  the  Papacy  to  Nations. 

Mr.  Ernest  Phillips,  in  his  Papal  Merchandise ,  has  gone 
into  the  subject  of  comparing  the  stocks  and  bonds  of 
Protestant  and  Papal  countries  as  no  other  writer  seems 


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to  have  done  and  his  conclusions  will  be  summed  up  in  his 
own  words :  “It  is  remarkable  that  not  a  single  Greek  or 
Roman  Catholic  stock  appears  on  the  list  until  after  the 
last  Protestant  stock  has  taken  its  place.  All  the  Protestant 
stocks  yield  less  than  £4  per  cent,  India  and  Egypt  being 
under  British  rule,  yield  less  than  £4  per  cent.  The  differ¬ 
ence  between  the  average  Roman  Catholic  yield  of  £5,  Is,  6d 
per  cent,  and  the  average  Protestant  yield  of  £3,  8s,  lOd 
per  cent,  is  £1,  12s,  8d  per  cent. 

“Twenty  Roman  Catholic  countries  (including  France 
and  Italy)  pay  16s,  8d  per  cent  more,  on  the  average,  for 
their  loans  than  the  twenty  Protestant  countries/’ 

The  same  may  be  said  of  municipal  stocks  and  b6nds. 
Take  the  bonds  of  our  cities  in  the  United  States  and 
Canada  and  compare  them  with  Mexico  and  South  Amer¬ 
ican  municipalities.  The  difference  is  most  marked,  again. 
“The  average  rate.”  says  Mr.  Phillips,  “paid  per  cent  for 
loans  raised  by  these  thirteen  municipalities  in  Protestant 
countries  is  £4,  9d.  While  the  eight  Roman  Catholic  mu¬ 
nicipalities  is  £5,  3s,  9d  per  cent,  being  a  saving  of  £1,  3s 
per  cent  in  favor  of  the  Protestant  communities.”  Go.  a 
step  farther  and  inquire  into,21  the  trade  returns  of  the 
various  countries  and  you  will  be  impressed,  to  a  marked 
degree,  with  the  striking  difference  in  Protestant  countries. 
T q  illustrate,  we  follow  Mr.  Phillips  in  his  selection  of  per 
capita  trade  returns  of  thirty-nine  countries,  with  these  re¬ 


sults  : 

18  Protestant  per  capita . $99.94 

21  Roman  Catholic  per  capita .  23.23 


Down  under  the  surface  of  these  statistics  there  is  a 
reason  why  the  withering  influence  of  some  power  has  held 


21.  Papal  Merchandise,  p.  196. 


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back  these  several  and  certain  countries.  The  Papacy  ha? 
been  the  dominating  power  in  them  for  from  four  to  a 
dozen  centuries.  Has  its  influence  been  such  as  to  recom¬ 
mend  it  to  dominate  the  United  States  of  America f 

Only  a  few  months  ago,  we  came  across  statistics  gath¬ 
ered  by  Mr.  Ernest  Phillips,22  showing  that  practically 
every  nation  since  the  birth  of  Roman  Catholicism  which 
has  ever  been  under  the  iron  heel  of  the  System,  has  been 
bankrupt.  Spain,  Portugal,  South  America,  Mexico,  have 
passed  from  one  to  five  times  through  bankruptcy,  while 
Great  Britain  has  not  had  one  colony  to  suffer  a  similar 
fate. 

The  following  summary,  compiled  by  Mr.  Phillips,23 
serves  to  illustrate  our  point.  This  table  shows  the  coun¬ 
tries,  which  during  the  nineteenth  century,  were  in  a  state 


of  bankruptcy: 

Roman  Catholic . 17 

Pagan  .  2 

Greek  Church  . 1 

Mohammedan  .  1 

Total  . 21 


In  leaving  this  department  of  our  investigation  we  can 
do  no  better  than  ask  the  question,  Why  have  all  Papal 
countries  been  bankrupts ?  Many  of  them  possessed  natural 
resources  unsurpassed  by  any  country  on  the  globe.  Geo¬ 
graphical  position  fitted  all  of  them  to  successfully  com¬ 
pete  with  the  world.  Climatic  conditions  fitted  them  to  be 
the  garden  spots  of  the  earth. 


22.  Papal  Merchandise,  p.  180. 

23.  Ibid,  p.  181. 


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Why  did  they  not  advance  to  a  higher  place  in  the  com¬ 
mercial  world? 

We  have  shown  that  the  Roman  Catholic  Hierarchy  has 
had  a  most  damaging  effect  upon  nations,  that  it  tends  to 
impede  the  progress  of  nations  over  which  it  has  ever  exer¬ 
cised  power.  We  will  now  briefly  show  that  its  influence 
upon  individuals  has  had  a  like  effect.  The  following,  taken 
from  one  of  our  booklets,23  sets  forth  the  subject: 

5. — The  Papacy  and  Pauperism. 

A  Michael  Angelo  could  fill  the  artistic  world  with 
wonder  and  admiration,  but  a  score  of  Angelos  could  never 
paint  the  full  measure  of  the  sufferings  and  the  misery  of 
Romanists  of  the  Papal  states. 

Multitudes  of  magnificent  churches  with  their  gilded 
spires  pointing  heavenward  have  housed  armies  of  sleek 
priests,  monks  and  nuns,  while  myriads  of  devout  Papists 
have  suffered  for  the  lack  of  the  most  common  things  of  life, 
and  from  whom  millions  upon  millions  of  hard  earned  dol¬ 
lars  have  been  grafted  to  enrich  the  Papal  System  and  sat¬ 
isfy  its  insatiable  greed  for  lucre.  This  may  strike  the  reader 
as  a  bit  severe,  but  mark  you  well,  the  picture  is  not  over¬ 
drawn  one  whit.  When  we  make  the  charge  that  the  Papal 
System  manufactures  paupers,  we  did  not  do  so  until  we 
had  become  convinced  by  personal  observation  and  reliable 
statistics  fully  sustaining  the  charge.  If  you  still  question 
the  charge,  all  we  ask  is  that  you  visit  those  countries  where 
the  Papal  System  has  held  the  power  and  we  have  no  fear 
of  further  criticism.  Go  to  southern  Italy,  southern  Ire¬ 
land,  South  America,  Mexico  and  the  islands  of  the  sea  and 
behold  the  squalor  and  want  such  as  is  not  only  unbelievable 
but  unthinkable  in  this  twentieth  century  of  abundance. 


23.  The  Simon  of  the  Papacy,  pp.  24-26. 


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Lord  Macaulay  by  no  means  overdrew  the  picture  when 
he  said  of  Papal  Rome:  “The  population  seemed  to  consist 
of  foreigners,  priests  and  paupers.” 

The  British  Medical  Journal  some  years  ago  commented 
on  the  subject,  using  these  words:  “The  splendid  newly 
built  Catholic  church,  the  well  built  convent,  now  and  then 
the  bishop’s  palace,  rise  among  the  wretched  cabins  of  some 
of  the  poorest  people  in  the  world.” 

Trace  the  pauperism  of  the  United  States  and  you  will 
find  the  victims,  the  down  and  outs,  the  distressed  and  dis¬ 
couraged,  are  to  a  very  large  degree,  the  children  of  the 
Papacy.  Go  to  our  great  cities  and  right  under  the  eaves  of 
the  magnificent  sanctuaries  you  will  find  those  nearest  to 
pauperism. 

’Twas  just  a  few  days  ago  the  writer  had  occasion  to  send 
a  representative  to  investigate  a  call  for  aid  and  found  a 
man,  a  wife  and  eight  children  without  the  common  neces¬ 
saries  of  life.  They  are  all  members  of  the  Papal  System 
and  live  within  a  few  blocks  of  an  elegant  Romish  church 
and  a  sleek  priest  housed  in  a  new  thirty  thousand  dollar 
house  of  a  dozen  or  more  rooms  to  accommodate  an  un¬ 
married  man.  Should  this  poor  son  of  the  papacy  die,  this 
elegantly  housed  priest  would,  no  doubt,  be  on  hand  to  col¬ 
lect  from  the  widow  for  the  funeral  mass  and  an  additional 
sum  later  on  for  praying  the  poor  dwarfed  soul  out  of 
purgatory.  While  he  lives  and  remains  a  Romanist,  is  it 
becoming  for  Protestants  to  support  the  family? 

Some  four  years  ago  in  the  city  of  Belfast,  which  is  said 
to  be  mainly  Protestant,  there  were  a  few  less  than  four 
thousand  inmates  of  the  workhouse,  and  about  one-half 
were  members  of  the  Papal  church.  In  Glasgow,  where  the 
Romanists  number  only  about  one-fifth,  double  the  propor- 


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tion  of  helpless  children  were  the  product  of  the  Papal 
System,. 

In  the  official  report  of  the  poor  departments  of  Protest¬ 
ant  England,  the  Papal  paupers  were  well  nigh  as  many  as 
all  the  others  combined.  The  following  comparison  illus¬ 
trates  a  fair  ratio  of  paupers  of  the  Papal  system: 


Protestant 

Papal 

Liverpool  .  . . . 

. 5,158 

4,112 

Manchester  .  . . 

. : . 1,295 

1,154 

6,453 

5,266 

In  Mexico 

many  grand  church  edifices  stand 

on  im- 

portant  corners  in  every  city  of  any  consequence,  and  yet 
the  wretchedness,  the  squalor,  the  misery  and  the  degreda- 
tion  of  the  masses  is  a  blot  upon  present  day  civilization. 

Read  the  unanimous  verdict  of  travelers  through  Ire¬ 
land  and  note  the  change  from  thrift  and  comfort  in  north 
Ireland,  to  the  pauperized,  Romanized,  wretchedness  in 
south  central  Ireland.  In  the  space  of  a  few  miles  one 
sees  a  well  contented,  progressive  people  enjoying  the  fruits 
of  their  toil.  Farther  along  he  sees  a  change  come  over  the 
landscape.  He  sees  an  ambitionless,  poverty  stricken,  semi- 
civilized  folk  with  a  single  asset,  their  names  are  recorded 
in  one  of  the  great  churches  close  at  hand. 

Some  years  ago  there  were  8,394  paupers  in  the  state  of 
Massachusetts,  and  about  five-eighths  of  the  total  were  of 
Irish  Catholic  parentage.  One  would  suppose  that  Cardinal 
O’Connell  would  pay  some  attention  to  his  starving  off¬ 
spring.  Lest  we  forget,  we  will  call  the  cardinal’s  attention 
to  the  Thirty-fourth  Report  of  the  Tewksbury  state  alms 
house  in  his  state,  and  in  which  report  there  is  given  2,362 
inmates  of  this  institution,  over  40  per  cent  of  which  were 


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Roman  Catholics.  We  wonder  how  much  they  contributed 
to  the  elegant  yacht  for  the  cardinal  to  pace  the  high  seas. 

In  concluding  this  chapter  we  can  do  no  better  than 
quote  the  words  of  Lord  Macaulay:  “Whoever,  knowing 
what  Italy  and  Scotland  naturally  are,  and  what,  400  years 
ago,  they  actually  were,  shall  now  compare  the  country 
round  Rome  with  the  country  round  Edinburgh,  will  be 
able  to  form  some  judgment  as  to  the  tendency  of  Papal 
domination.  The  descent  of  Spain,  once  the  first  among 
monarchies,  to  the  lowest  depths  of  degradation ;  the  eleva¬ 
tion  of  Holland,  in  spite  of  many  natural  disadvantages,  to 
a  position  such  as  no  commonwealth  so  small  has  ever 
reached,  teach  the  same  lesson.  Whoever  passes  in  Ger¬ 
many  from  a  Roman  Catholic  to  a  Protestant  principality  ; 
in  Switzerland  from  a  Roman  Catholic  to  a  Protestant  can¬ 
ton;  in  Ireland  from  a  Roman  Catholic  to  a  Protestant 
county,  finds  that  he  has  passed  from  a  lower  to  a  higher 
grade  of  civilization.  On  the  other  side  of  the  Atlantic 
the  same  law  prevails.  The  Protestants  of  the  United 
States  have  left  far  behind  them  the  Roman  Catholics  of 
Mexico,  Peru  and  Brazil.  The  Roman  Catholics  of  lower 
Canada  remain  inert,  while  the  whole  continent  round  them 
is  in  a  ferment  with  Protestant  activity  and  enterprise.,, 

At  the  Roman  Catholic  Congress,  held  in  the  City  of 
Montreal,  Sept.  2,  1912,  that  sleek  stall-fed  English  Jesuit 
priest,  Bernard  Vaughan,  said :  “1  think  it  is  a  grand  thing 
to  see  a  woman  take  in  washing  ”  This  is  the  Jesuit  about 
whom  the  silly  American  newspapers  have  so  much  to  say 
when  he  comes  to  America  on  a  rich  woman-taming  expedi¬ 
tion. 

We  have  used  this  illustration  merely  to  show  that  the 
purpose  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Hierarchy  is  to  hold  their 


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people  down  in  mental  and  moral  slavery,  in  order  that  it 
may  hold  power  and  dominion  over  the  masses. 

Thus,  throughout  the  centuries  it  has  builded  its  massive 
superstructure  at  the  expense  of  the  manhood,  the  moral 
and  intellectual  development  of  the  people. 

When  you  review  the  riches,  splendor,  and  luxury  of 
this  ponderous  system,  don’t  for  one  moment  forget  that  it 
has  been  builded  by  robbing  billions  of  human  beings  of 
those  characteristics  and  privileges  which  are  implanted  in 
man  by  the  Eternal  God. 

The  following  is  quoted  by  Mr.  Ernest  Phillips24  from 
the  Bulwark  for  August,  1910:  “The  annual  report  of  an 
Inspector  of  Poor  is  a  Mirror  of  life:  civilized  life !  for  ex¬ 
ample,  the  report  of  the  Glasgow  Parish  shows  that  the' 
Parish  is  responsible  for  2,088  boarded-out  children.  Of 
these,  466  are  orphans,  229  are  deserted,  and  1,393  are  sep¬ 
arated  from  parents,  1,253  are  Protestants,  and  835  Roman 
Catholics.  Note  here  that  Roman  Catholics  claim  to  be  one- 
fifth  of  the  population.  The  proportion  of  boarded-out 
children  is  eight-twentieths,  that  is  two-fifths,  or  just  double 
the  claimed  rate.”  The  same  writer  tells  us  that  “The 
Roman  Catholic  inmates  of  London  work-houses  are  four¬ 
teen  per  cent  of  the  total,  and  yet  according  to  the  Daily 
Mail  Year  Book  of  the  Churches,  1908,  the  percentage  of 
Romanists  in  London  county  is  9.32,  and  in  Greater  Lon¬ 
don,  6.17.”  We  need  to  do  no  more  than  mention  to  the 
well-informed  reader  the  state  of  the  people  in  Italy,  Portu¬ 
gal,  South  America  and  Mexico.  Papalized  to  the  core, 
pauperized  to  the  shame  and  everlasting  condemnation  of 
any  system  existing  in  this  glorious  twentieth  century  of 
abounding  prosperity,  even  statistics  are  inadequate  to  meas- 


24.  Papal  Merchandise,  p.  183. 


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ure  the  squalor,  the  human  degradation  of  these  peoples 
who  have  basked  in  the  glorious  uplift  and  civilizing  in¬ 
fluence  of  Roman  Catholicism  for  centuries. 

How  zvould  such  a  System  fit  in,  in  America? 

A  Tree  is  known  by  its  fruits. 


CHAPTER  VII. 


THE  HIERARCHY  IN  AMERICA. 


“Know  this  also,  that  in  the  last  days  perilous  times  shall  come." 

In  this  chapter  we  propose  reviewing  briefly  the  Papal 
Hierarchy  in  America.  We  have  already  had  somewhat 
to  say  in  a  general  way  of  that  System.  We  have  shown 
its  influence  upon  nations  over  which  it  has  held  the  bal¬ 
ance  of  power  for  centuries.  We  have  gone  a  step  further 
and  hinted  at  some  of  its  aims  in  our  own  land.  It  now 
remains  for  us  to  more  specifically  lay  bare  these  aspira¬ 
tions,  which  we  will  do  under  the  caption : 

Do  Papists  Hope  to  Reduce  America  to  Papal  Rule? 

Not  a  few  who  read  these  words  will  smile  at  such  a 
question.  Others,  with  an  air  of  disgust,  will  say  the  ques¬ 
tion  is  too  silly  to  give  a  second  thought.  Some  will  marvel 
that  the  signs  of  the  times  are  such  as  to  make  even  such 
a  supposition  possible.  We  shall  follow  our  custom  of 
merely  presenting  the  case  and  leave  the  reader  to  draw 
his  own  conclusions. 

1. — Does  Popery  aspire  to  rule  America ? 

It  is  a  well-known  fact  that  since  A.  D.  1870  relations 
at  the  Vatican  have  been  more  or  less  strained.  The  old 
time  temporal  power,  so  fondly  fostered  and  faithfully 
fondled  by  Popery,  has  well  nigh  universally  slipped  away. 

When  King  Emmanuel  marched  into  the  city  of  Rome, 
in  1870,  the  funeral  dirge  of  the  temporal  power  of  the 
Papacy  was  chanted  and  prophecy  fulfilled.  During  the 
almost  half  a  century  since  that  memorable  occasion  it  is 


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alleged  that  Popery  has,  more  or  less,  smarted  under  the 
restraint  of  being  forced  to  devote  its  inexhaustible  re¬ 
sources  merely  to  the  task  of  dealing  out  spiritual  unction 
to  mankind.  It  has  divers  times  been  hinted  that  the  Pope, 
at  times,  has  grown  restless  because  he  felt  he  was  wasting 
his  valuable  time  treating  merely  the  spiritual  side  of  man, 
whpi  by  direct  and  Divine  command  he  zvas  delegated  to  a 
much  wider  scope.  No  sooner  did  Italy  sidestep  than 
France,  Spain,  Portugal,  Mexico  and  the  Islands  of  the  Sea 
began  to  doubt  the  divine  right  of  the  Vatican  to  rule  in 
affairs  temporal.  Thus  the  prodigious  stock  of  divine 
unction  stored  in  the  Vatican  began  to  grow  musty  because 
of  disuse,  and  it  is  alleged  that  there  is  a  great  need  of  some 
country  where  this  divinely  delegated  power  can  be  unbot¬ 
tled  and  spread  abroad. 

A  feeler  was  thrown  out  to  both  England  and  Germany, 
but  past  experiences  forbade  anything  like  a  warm  welcome. 
Russia,  China  and  Japan  are  not  all  desirable  because  of 
divers  reasons. 

These  introductory  words  lead  us  to  remark  that  the 
only  logical  and  plausible  country  on  the  globe  where 
Popery  could  possibly  secure  the  balance  of  power  is 
America. 

1.  This  is  true,  because  under  our  constitution,  religious 
liberty  is  granted  to  all,  and  such  a  soil  is  most  conducive  to 
the  schemes  of  the  Jesuits. 

2.  Religious  toleration  has  been  so  thoroughly  instilled 
into  our  makeup  that  we  are  accustomed  to  wink  at  many 
things  other  nations  would  hardly  permit  to  pass  un¬ 
noticed. 

3.  Corrupt  politics,  the  buying  and  selling  of  votes,  the 
boss  rule  of  our  political  convention  system  has  made  it 


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possible  to  pick  men  to  champion  certain  measures  for  the 
special  benefit  of  classes  and  sects. 

4.  The  utter  carelessness  of  Protestant  people  as  to  the 
aggression  of  errors  of  many  sorts. 

5.  The  inexcusable  ignorance  of  the  average  American 
as  to  what  has  taken  place  in  the  past,  and  what  is  today 
taking  place  in  all  parts  of  our  country. 

6.  The  steadfastness  to  political  parties  has  been  the 
means  of  allowing  men  of  the  baser  sort  to  acquire  power 
to  be  used  in  most  questionable  practices. 

AJ1  these  things  conduce  to  opening  our  doors  to  the 
Papacy  and  to  its  preempting  our  land.  For  a  quarter  of  a 
century  these  conditions  have  been  taken  advantage  of  by 
the  Papacy  until,  as  we  have  already  stated,  it  practically 
controls  our  army  and  navy  and  our  chief  ports  as  well. 
Had  Mr.  Taft  been  president  two  terms  more  we  do  not 
hesitate  to  say  we  would  either  be  engrossed  with  a  cruel 
war,  or  America  would  be  Papist.  Later  developments  go 
to  show  that  Mr.  Wilson’s  attitude  is  little  improvement 
over  Mr.  Taft’s. 

But  this  is  not  now  pertinent  to  the  question.  The  ques¬ 
tion  is,  Does  Popery  aspire  to  rule  America ?  We  shall 
assist  the  reader  in  framing  his  answer  to  the  extent  of 
permitting  Papists  to  bear  testimony. 

1.  “With  deep  sorrow  we  are  not  constrained  to  have 
recourse  to  the  arm  of  justice  and  are  obliged  to  take  action 
again  at  a  nation  that  has  rejected  the  Pope  as  head  of  all 
church  and  state  governments. 

“In  virtue,  therefore,  of  the  divine  authority  by  which 
we  have  been  placed  on  this  supreme  throne  of  justice,  an 
office  so  superior  to  our  capability,  we  do,  in  the  plenitude 
of  apostolic  power,  declare  that  all  heretics  and  the  eV 


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couragers  of  heresy,  together  with  all  adherents,  have  in¬ 
curred  the  sentence  of  excommunication,  and  they  are 
hereby  cut  off  from  the  unity  of  the  body  of  Jesus  Christ/’ 
— Extracts  from  the  Encyclical  Letter  of  Providence  Pope. 

2.  “We  have  taken  this  principle  for  basis — that  the 
Catholic  religion  with  all  its  rights,  ought  to  be  exclusively 
dominant,  in  such  sort  that  every  other  worship  shall  be 
banished,  and  interdicted.  It  is  a  cause  of  supreme  bitter¬ 
ness  to  the  heart  of  the  Holy  Father  not  to  be  able  otherwise 
to  impose  a  limit  to  so  much  evil,  as  he  certainly  would  if 
he  could  make  use  of  other  means  to  bridle  their  insane 
license.” — Pope  Pius  IX. 

3.  “America  is  at  heart  a  Christian  country.  As  a  reli- 
ligious  system,  Protestantism  is  in  hopeless  dissolution,  ut¬ 
terly  valueless  as  a  doctrinal  or  moral  power,  and  no 
longer  to  be  considered  a  foe  with  which  we  must  count. 
The  Catholic  church  is  the  sole  living  and  enduring  Chris¬ 
tian  authority.” — Archbishop  Ireland,  St.  Paul,  Minn. 

4.  “I  acknowledge  no  civil  power:  I  am  the  subject 
of  no  prince,  and  I  claim  more  than  this,  to  be  the  supreme 
judge  and  director  of  the  consciences  of  men.  I  am  sole, 
last,  supreme  judge  of  what  is  right  and  wrong.  Moreover 
we  declare,  affirm,  define  and  pronounce  it  to  be  necessary 
to  salvation  to  every  human  creature.” — Cardinal  Manning, 
speaking  in  the  name  of  the  Pope. 

5.  “We  declare,  say,  define  and  pronounce  it  to  be  al¬ 
together  necessary  to  salvation,  that  every  human  creature 
should  be  subject  to  the  Roman  pontiff.” — From  the  Canon 
law  of  the  Papal  Church. 

6.  “The  Church  has  the  right  to  prevent  the  state  from 
granting  the  public  exercise  of  their  own  worship  to  per¬ 
sons  immigrating  into  it.” — Syllabus  of  Pius  IX. 


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7.  “There  has  never  been  a  period  in  American  his¬ 
tory  when  the  church’s  opportunity  has  been  so  close  to  her. 
To  a  great  extent  the  ancient  antagonisms  have  died.  Pro- 
testanism  is  disintegrating  before  our  eyes.  The  moment  is 
ripe  to  build  a  Catholic  America,  and  strong  men  are  now 
laying  the  foundation.” — The  World  (Catholic). 

8.  “The  pope  has  given  the  order  to  make  America 

Catholic.  .  .  .  The  first  step  in  the  making  will  be  the 

election  of  one  of  the  American  Cardinals  to  the  Papacy, 
the  removal  of  St.  Peter’s  to  Washington.  Cardinal  Gib¬ 
bons  is  to  be  made  president  and  every  non-Catholic  will 
be  driven  out  of  the  army  and  navy.” — Catholic  Sun. 

9.  “Never,  I  believe,  since  that  century,  the  dawn  of 
which  was  the  glimmer  from  the  Eastern  Star,  was  there 
prepared  for  Catholics  of  any  nation  of  earth  a  work  so 
noble  in  its  nature  and  so  pregnant  with  consequences  as 
that  which  it  is  our  mission  to  accomplish.  The  work 
defines  the  measure  of  the  responsibility. 

“The  work  is  to  make  America  Catholic,  as  we  love 
America  as  we  love  the  church,  it  suffices  to  mention  the 
work,  and  our  cry  shall  be,  “God  wills  it,”  and  our  hearts 
shall  leap  toward  it  with  Crusader  enthusiasm.” — Arch¬ 
bishop  Ireland,  before  the  Roman  Catholic  Congress  at  Bal¬ 
timore,  Nov.  10,  1889. 

10.  “I  expect  to  see  America  classed  as  a  Catholic 
nation. 

“Decadent  France  shows  the  baneful  influence  of  her  war 
against  the  Catholic  Church. 

“I  never  could  understand  how  many  intelligent  Chris¬ 
tians  could  honestly  oppose  Catholicism.” — Cardinal  Logue. 
(Head  of  Catholic  Church  in  Ireland.) 

11.  “How  near  at  hand  do  you  think  is  the  time  when 


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America  will  be  dominantly  Catholic?  Things  move  on 
with  -rapid  strides  these  days,  and  the  recent  creation  of 
three  American  Cardinals  has  brought  the  church  once  more 
to  the  forefront. 

“We  must  labor  to  gain  the  confidence,  love  and  respect 
of  the  American  people.  This  once  gained,  the  Catholic 
Church,  in  her  way  to  claim  the  American  heart,  may  carry 
a  thousand  dogmas  on  her  back.” — Catholic  Missionary 
Union. 

The  temptation  to  inject  a  few  remarks  about  these 
utterances  is  not  easy  to  check,  but  our  purpose  is  to  give 
facts  and  leave  the  reader  to  form  his  own  conclusions. 
We  want  to  remark,  however,  in  passing,  that  the  evidence 
we  have  set  forth  seems  clearly  to  point  to  a  plot  which  is 
deeper  than  the  saving  of  men’s  souls.  It  is  the  duty  of 
every  intelligent,  patriotic  American  to  think  of  these  things. 
If  there  be  nothing  more  under  the  surface  than  a  con¬ 
suming  zeal  to  uplift  humanity,  no  evil  effect  shall  have 
resulted  from  the  investigation. 

What  if  the  investigation  showed  otherwisef  Do  not 
take  our  word  for  it.  Study  closely  the  assertions  of 
Papists  themselves.  If  they  speak  words  of  truth,  then  it 
behooves  true  Americans  to  think  seriously,  deeply,  sanely. 

The  Jesuit  in  America. 

Furthermore,  has  it  ever  occurred  to  you  that  the  Jesuit, 
the  vulture,  the  scavenger  of  the  Papacy,  has  taken  up  his 
abode  with  us  in  America.  Maybe  you  do  not  know  who 
this  papal  parasite  is,  therefore  we  introduce  him  by  saying 
that  he  has  been  exiled  from  almost  every  country  under 
the  sun  from  one  to  five  times.  He  is  the  gentleman  whom 
Pope  Clement  XIII.,  in  1773,  suppressed,  and  gave  his  rea- 


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sons  for  abolishing  the  order  in  these  words :  “I  do  not 
give  my  reasons  for  the  abolishment  of  the  order  of  Jesuits 
because  their  practices  and  the  precepts  enunciated  by  them 
are  so  absolutely  infamous  and  demoralizing  that  I  do  not 
wish  to  use  the  language  which  is  required  to  describe  them. 
After  four  years  of  careful  consideration,  and  the  utmost 
pains  taken  to  ascertain  the  truth  about  this  order,  I  am 
compelled  to  abolish  it.” 

A  few  months  later  Pope  Clement  was  found  dead  in 
his  bed,  poisoned  by  the  Jesuits,  who  also  assassinated 
Presidents  Lincoln,  Garfield  and  McKinley,  and  attempted 
the  life  of  Col.  Roosevelt  some  time  ago.  These  are  the 
individuals  we  are  welcoming  to  our  shores,  as  Roman 
Catholic  nations  exile  them. 

By  their  intrigue,  murder  and  treason,  two  score  of 
governments  have  discovered  their  aim  and  expelled  them 
sixty-two  times.  Hundreds  of  these  Jesuits  are  now  in 
America,  working  their  trade  in  multitudes  of  ways.  Our 
national  capitol  is  honeycombed  with  them,  pussy- footing 
hither  and  thither,  and  every  mother’s  son  of  them  armed 
with  full  absolution  direct  from  the  Vatican,  so  that  any 
crime  he  may  commit  is  forgiven  even  before  it  is  com¬ 
mitted. 

We  have  intimated  that  the  Papal  Hierarchy  had  inten¬ 
tions  upon  our  Republic.  It  is  the  Jesuit  who  is  selected  to 
inject  the  poison  that  is  to  destroy  the  vitals  of  the  gov¬ 
ernment  and  cause  its  decay.  Three  times  in  the  sixteenth 
century  and  twice  in  the  seventeenth,  England  discovered 
the  treachery  of  the  Papacy  and  banished  them  from  that 
country.  My  point  is:  Is  it  worth  while  to  take  cognizance 
of  his  presence  in  America ? 

We  know  his  past  history,  and  no  such  history  of  crime. 


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vileness,  treason  and  intrigue  blackens  the  pages  of  past 
ages.  Kings,  Emperors,  Presidents,  Popes  and  Princes 
are  numbered  in  the  list  of  their  victims. 

Do  we  act  wisely  in  permitting  him  to  carry  on  his  devil¬ 
ish  purposes  in  our  land?  He  is  in  our  Department  of 
State;  he  is,  no  doubt,  in  our  Protestant  pulpits,  just  as  he 
was  in  the  English  Protestant  pulpits  in  the  sixteenth  and 
seventeenth  centuries.  He  is  in  our  great  commercial 
houses ;  he  is  in  our  district  and  supreme  courts ;  he  is  in  our 
army  and  our  navy ;  he  is  in  the  innermost  secret  chambers 
of  the  government  of  the  United  States.  He  is  in  position 
to  collect  that  secret  data  that  finally  overthrew  the  govern¬ 
ments  of  Europe  in  past  centuries.  Again  the  question, 
Do  we  want  him  in  America? 

In  one  of  our  former  publications  we  used  the  following, 
which  sums  up  the  subject  in  a  nutshell: 

“The  Jesuit  has  been  driven  out  of  every  country  where 
he  has  plied  his  trade  of  treason  and  intrigue,  as  the  fol¬ 
lowing  will  show :  Italy,  Spain,  Portugal,  Germany,  Aus¬ 
tria,  Switzerland,  Belgium,  Russia,  China,  Japan,  Mexico, 
several  South  American  countries,  England,  Ireland,  India, 
and  Malta. 

“Those  to  whom  this  bit  of  history  may  be  new  will 
naturally  ask  why  these  holy  men  of  God  (?)  have  been  so 
often  expelled  from  these  countries.  Our  first  inclination 
is  to  answer  the  question  by  asking  another  question :  Why 
were  the  fallen  angels  banished  from  heaven?  In  neither 
case  was  it  because  of  their  loyalty,  honor,  integrity,  godli¬ 
ness.  In  both  cases  the  reason  was  the  same,  and  yet  they 
did  no  more  there  to  cause  their  banishment  than  they  are 
doing  today  in  America  and  are  lauded  by  our  newspapers 
Tor  it.  This  leads  us  to  remark  that  there  has  not  been  a 


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single  country  under  the  sun  where  the  Jesuit  has  been 
unmolested  for  any  considerable  time,  but  his  iniquitous, 
treasonable  deeds  did  not  overtake  him  and  make  it  neces¬ 
sary  to  drive  him  into  exile.  It  is  easy  to  demonstrate  by 
history  that  the  unrest,  discord,  and  wars  for  a  thousand 
years  have  been  largely  at  the  instigation  of  the  Jesuits. 
The  fifty  millions  of  innocent  people  murdered  in  cold  blood 
by  the  Papacy  is  a  lasting  monument  to  the  intrigue  and 
duplicity  of  the  “Society  of  Jesus.”  The  assassination  of 
presidents  and  rulers  is  easily  traceable  to  this  body  of  holy 
men  of  God  and  who  received  full  instructions  in  advance 
from  the  Vatican. 

“When  the  Papal  Hierarchy  sets  about  to  worm  itself 
into  a  nation,  the  Jesuit  is  always  the  instrument  by  which 
this  end  is  accomplished.  When  papal  greed  discovers  some 
female  who  has  inherited  a  large  fortune,  it  is  the  Jesuit 
who  is  sent  to  lay  the  trap  and  bag  the  game  for  the 
Hierarchy.” 

Lest  the  reader  think  we  have  set  the  picture  of  the  in¬ 
famous  Jesuit  in  too  dark  a  setting,  we  will  give  a  bit  of  the 
theology  under  which  he  works.  Let  us  remind  you,  this 
theology  has  been  accepted  by  the  infallible  popes  and  is 
therefore  absolutely  true  and  in  force  this  very  day.  When 
you  see  a  smooth  Jesuit  person,  meekly  walking  along  the 
street  in  a  sanctimonious  style,  seemingly  so  innocent  that 
he  is  watching  his  footsteps  that  he  may  not  so  much  as 
step  upon  and  crush  out  the  life  of  the  most  insignificant 
insect,  just  refer  to  this  moral  theology  and  you  can  get 
your  man  according  to  his  true  measure. 

We  promise  you  in  advance,  it  is  going  to  tax  your 
imagination  to  believe  that  the  Jesuit’s  theology  we  are 
to  present  to  you  can  be  true.  Indeed,  as  one  reads  it  in 


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authorities  that  even  no  Romanist  can  deny,  we  then  find 
ourselves  wondering  if  it  can  be  possible  that  such  infamous 
doctrine  was  intended  for  human  beings  to  accept.  Please 
pardon  us  for  calling  your  attention  to  another  important 
point.  These  same  Jesuits,  these  parasites  who  have  been 
sixty-two  times  exiled  from  various  countries,  and  most 
frequently  from  Papal  countries  by  Roman  Catholics  them¬ 
selves,  these  traitors  who  hesitate  at  no  crime  under  high 
heaven,  these  scavengers  trained  to  all  the  craftiness  of  the 
nether  world,  these  disturbers  in  the  political  and  commer¬ 
cial  life  of  nations,  are  also  the  educators  of  the  Papal 
System,  and  because  of  their  frequent  banishment  from 
other  countries  are  flocking  to  the  United  States  and  seeking 
to  disrupt  and  break  down  our  public  school  system. 

Thou  art  the  man,  O  Jesuit,  who,  by  your  craftiness, 
would  bury  our  public  schools  and  inaugurate  the  Papal 
catechism  to  debauch,  deceive,  denude,  dethrone  and  destroy 
the  intellectual  development  of  our  grand  youth  and  reduce 
them  to  that  state  of  ignorance  and  superstition  that  char¬ 
acterizes  Papal  countries. 

's. 

Thou  art  condemned  out  of  thine  own  mouth,  as  the 
following  extracts  from  thy  theology  plainly  show.  This  is 
but  the  more  moderate  part  of  Jesuit  theology.  Much  of 
it  is  too  obscene  and  blasphemous  even  to  write.  The  Hon. 
Thomas  Watson  and  Miss  Annie  Lawry  have  been  arrested 
for  even  quoting  it.  Just  think  for  a  moment  of  a  system 
setting  itself  up  as  the  only  and  exclusive  purveyor  of  sal¬ 
vation  to  mankind,  and  its  teaching  so  infamously  obscene 
and  corrupt  that  the  laws  of  the  land  forbid  its  theology 
being  carried  through  the  mails,  and  those  who  even  quote  it 
in  Latin  are  subject  to  arrest  for  using  obscene  language. 


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The  following  is  a  sample  of  Jesuit  theology  to  which  we 
now  invite  attention: 

Theft. 

Tamburin,  in  his  explication  of  the  Decalogue,  Book  8, 
Tract  2,  Chapter  2,  page  205,  asserts :  “A  man  is  not  bound 
to  restore  what  he  has  stolen  in  small  sums,  whatever  may 
be  the  total  amount.” 

Cardenas  in  his  Crisis  Theolog,  Diss.  23,  Chapter  2, 
Article  1,  maintains:  “Domestics  who  secretly  steal  from 
their  masters,  being  rationally  persuaded  that  it  is  no  injus¬ 
tice  for  them  because  their  labor  is  worth  more  wages  than 
they  receive,  commit  no  crime.”  That  dogma  is  also  ratified 
by  Taberna. 

“Escabar  in  his  Theolog  Moral,  Vol.  4,  Lib.  34,  Sub.  2, 
Prob.  16,  teaches  that  ‘A  child  who  serves  his  father  may 
secretly  purloin  as  much  as  his  father  would  have  paid  a 
stranger  for  his  work/  ” 

In  his  Universal  Theology,  Book  5,  Ques.  3,  Chapter  4, 
Gordonus  decides:  “A  woman  may  take  the  property  of 
her  husband  for  gambling,  or  any  other  extravagance,  and 
to  supply  her  spiritual  wants,  that  she  may  act  like  other 
women!’  In  other  words,  she  is  directed  to  steal  from  her 
family  to  glut  her  profligate  priestly  confessor. 

“Vasquez,  and  Castro  Palao,  Tract  6,  and  Escabar, 
Tract  5,  Exam.  5,  thus  determine:  When  a  man  sees  a 
thief  resolved  and  ready  to  rob  a  poor  person,  to  hinder 
him  he  may  point  out  some  rich  man  whom  he  would  rob 
in  his  stead/  ”  Text  Book  of  Popery,  pp.  366-367. 

In  his  Cursus  Theologica,  Dis.  p.  38,  Section  4,  Fran¬ 
cis  Amicus  says:  “He  who  has  stolen  to  a  considerable 
amount  is  not  obliged  under  pain  of  mortal  sin  to  restore 
the  whole.” 


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On  the  same  subject  Thomas  Tamburin  has  this  to  say: 
“That  a  number  of  small  thefts  may  constitute  a  mortal  sin, 
it  is  necessary  they  should  be  committed  continuously .  If 
four  years  elapse  between  the  commission  of  one  theft  and 
another,  it  is  accounted  by  Rebel  to  be  a  considerable  in¬ 
terval.  One  year  by  Sanchez,  six  months  by  some,  and 
fifteen  days  by  others.”  Explicatio  Decalogi,  Lib.  8,  Tr.  2, 
C.  3. 

Stephen  Banny  is  a  bit  more  charitable  with  Papists,  as 
he  proclaims:  “These  trifling  thefts,  committed  on  differ¬ 
ent  days,  and  at  different  opportunities,  against  one  man 
or  against  many,  however  great  may  he  the  amount  which 
has  been  stolen ,  will  never  become  mortal  sins.” — Des  Lar- 
cius.  Chapter  10. 

“It  is  not  a  mortal  sin  to  take  secretly .  And  it  is  not 
necessary  to  restore.” — Emmanuel  Sa  Apporismi  Confessa- 
viorum. 

“Servants  are  excused  both  from  sin  and  restitution  if 
they  only  take  in  equitable  compensation.”  Valerius  Reg¬ 
inald,  Praxis  Fori,  Lib.  25,  C.  44. 

Murder. 

“A  priest,”  says  Henriquez,  “who  commits  adultery 
with  a  woman  is  not  criminal,  if  he  kills  her  husband  who 
assails  him.”  Sum  of  Moral  Theology,  Vol.  1,  Book  14, 
Chapt.  10. 

Airault,  page  319,  thus  teaches:  “If  a  person  attempts 
to  ruin  my  reputation  by  calumny,  and  I  can  evade  the  in¬ 
jury  by  directly  killing  him,  may  1  do  it?  Certainly,  you 
may  fitly  kill  him,  not  publicly,  but  secretly,  to  evade 
scandal.” 

Guimenius,  in  his  seventh  proposition,  affirmed:  “You 


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may  charge  your  opponent  with  false  crimes  to  take  away 
his  credit,  as  well  as  kill  him.” 

“It  is  lawful  to  kill  any  man  to  save  a  crown.” — Malina, 
Vol.  3,  Disput,  16. 

“It  is  not  a  sin  for  parents  to  wish  the  death  of  their 
children,  or  to  desire  the  death  of  any  one  who  troubles  the 
Roman  Church.” — Fegeli  Practical  Questions,  Part  4,  Chapt. 

1,  Quest.  7,  Num.  8. 

Dicastillo,  Book  2,  Tract  1,  Num.  15,  says:  “If  a  man 
becomes  a  nuisance  to  society,  the  son  may  lawfully  kill  his 
father.” 

4  _ 

Busenbaum  and  La  Croix,  Moral  Theology,  Vol.  1, 
Page  295,  proclaim:  “In  all  cases  where  any  man  has  a 
right  to  kill  a  person,  if  affection  moves,  another  man  may 
do  it  for  him.” 

Gabot  in  his  Moral  Works,  Vol.  2,  Part  2,  Tract  5, 
Cap.  9,  Sec.  8,  declares :  <(A  son  who  inherits  great  wealth 
by  the  death  of  his  father  may  rejoice  that,  when  he  was  in¬ 
toxicated,  he  murdered  his  father.” — Text  Book  of  Popery, 
P.  369. 

“If  an  adulterous  priest,  even  aware  of  his  danger,  hav- 
/ng  visited  an  adultress,  is  assailed  by  her  husband,  and  kills 
the  man  in  his  own  defense,  it  is  not  criminal.” — Henriquez, 
Sum  of  Moral  Theology,  Vol.  1,  Book  14,  Chapt.  10,  Page 
869. 

Stephen  Fagundez  tells  us:  “If  a  judge  had  been  un¬ 
just,  and  had  proceeded  (in  trial)  without  adhering  to  the 
course  of  the  law,  then  certainly  the  accused  might  defend 
himself,  by  assaulting  and  even  killing  the  judge.” — Tom. 

2,  Lib.  8,  Chapt.  32. 

Perjury — Lying — False  Witness. 

“He  who  may  conceal  goods,  which  he  requires  for  the 


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sustenance  of  life,  lest  they  should  be  seized  by  his  cred¬ 
itors  and  himself  reduced  to  beggary,  may  swear,  when  he 
is  examined  by  the  judge,  that  he  has  no  concealed  goods. 
And  they  who  are  privy  to  it  may  swear  the  same  thing.” — 
Thomas  Sanchez,  in  Precept  Decal.,  Part  2,  Book  3. 

“When  a  man  who  has  truly  or  feignedly  promised  mar¬ 
riage,  is,  for  some  reason,  free  from  the  obligation  of  ful¬ 
filling  his  promise,  he  may  swear,  when  required,  that  he 
did  not  promise  understanding.  .  .  Because,  by  adopting 

a  probable  opinion,  he  may  think  he  is  not  bound  with  a 
safe  conscience.”— In  Precept  Decal.,  Part  2,  Book  3. 

“The  witness  and  the  accused  are  not  obliged  to  answer 
according  to  the  meaning  of  the  judge.” — Leonard  Lessius 
De  Justice  et  Jure,  Book  2. 

Vincent  Fillincius  asks  the  question:  “With  what  pre¬ 
caution  is  equivocation  to  be  used?”  And  he  answers: 
“When  we  begin,  for  instance,  to  say,  ‘I  swear,’  we  must 
insert  in  a  subdued  tone  the  mental  restriction,  ‘that  today,’ 
and  then  continue  aloud,  ‘that  I  have  not  eaten  such  a 
thing,’  or  ‘I  swear,’  then  insert,  ‘I  say,’  then  conclude  in 
the  same  loud  voice,  ‘that  I  have  not  done  this  or  that  thing,’ 
for  thus  the  whole  speech  is  very  true.” — Moralium  Ques- 
tionum. 

John  Baptist  Taberna,  in  his  Synopsis  Theologiae  Prac¬ 
tice,  at  Question  5,  asks,  “Is  a  judge  bound  to  restore  the 
bribe  which  he  has  received  for  passing  sentence?”  The 
answer  is,  “If  he  has  received  the  bribe  for  passing  an  un¬ 
just  sentence,  it  is  probable  he  may  keep  it.  .  .  .  This 
opinion  is  maintained  and  defended  by  fifty-eight  doctors.” 
— Pope  or  President,  pp.  208-209. 

Rosenbaum  and  La  Croix,  in  Theologia  Moralis,  Art. 
4,  Ques.  268,  ask  the  same  question:  “Is  a  judge  bound 


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to  restore  the  bribe  which  he  has  received  for  passing  judg¬ 
ment?”  Answer;  “If  he  has  received  it  for  a  just  sentence, 
he  is  bound  to  restore  it,  because  it  was  otherwise  due  to  the 
pleader,  and  he  has  therefore  received  no  benefit  for  his 
money.  If  the  judge  has  received  it  for  an  unjust  sentence, 
he  is  not  to  make  restitution,  as  Bannez,  Sanchez,  etc.,  teach. 
Now  the  exposure  to  such  danger  in  the  service  of  another 
may  be  valued  at  a  price.”  Book  4,  Art.  4,  Quest.  268. 

Molina,  no  less  eminent  a  theologian  than  Escabar,  says ; 
“Judges  may  receive  presents  from  the  parties  in  a  suit,  if 
they  make  them  from  friendship  or  gratitude  for  the  justice 
which  has  been  done  them,  or  to  oblige  them  to  do  it  for  the 
future,  or  to  engage  them  to  take  particular  care  and  dis¬ 
patch  their  business.” — Tract.  2,  Disput.  88. 

Escabar  teaches  that  “a  judge  may  lawfully  take  a  sum 
of  money  to  give  sentence  for  which  party  he  pleases,  when 
both  have  equal  right.”  He  further  says:  “If  a  judge  re¬ 
ceives  a  bribe  to  pass  a  just  sentence,  he  is  bound  to  re¬ 
store  it,  because  he  is  bound  to  do  justice  without  a  bribe; 
but  if  the  judge  be  bribed  to  pass  an  unjust  sentence,  he  is 
not  obliged  in  conscience  to  make  any  restitution.” — Moral 
Theology,  Vol.  1,  Book  2,  Sec.  2,  Chapt.  6,  Quoted  in  Text- 
Book  of  Popery,  p.  366. 

Fraud  in  Business. 

“It  is  lawful,”  says  Escabar,  “for  a  man  to  use  false 
weights;  and  if  he  be  charged  with  it,  he  may  deny  it  by 
oath,  making  use  of  equivocal  expressions,  when  he  is  in¬ 
terrogated  before  a  judge.”  This  same  great  Romish  Theo¬ 
logian  further  teaches  on  the  subject  in  these  words :  “May 
he  who  turns  bankrupt,  with  a  safe  conscience,  retain  as 
much  as  is  requisite  to  maintain  himself  handsomely,  or  that 
he  may  not  live  meanly?  With  Lessius,  I  affirm  that  he 


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may.” — Moral  Theology,  Tract  1,  Ex.  3,  Cap.  7,  Quoted  in 
Text-Book  of  Popery,  p.  366. 

The  Nun  in  America. 

The  Papal  Hierarchy  is  the  most  stupenduous  organiza¬ 
tion  the  world  has  ever  seen.  From  the  Vatican  in  every 
direction  the  multitudinous  tentacles  reach  out  to  gather 
in  the  shekels.  Prince  and  pauper,  ruler  and  roustabout, 
savant  and  servant  girl,  philosopher  and  peasant,  are  reached 
by  some  finger  of  this  System.  Thousands  of  these  poor 
dupes  give  it  their  labor  for  a  lifetime  absolutely  free. 
Multitudes  give  themselves,  their  fortunes,  their  woman¬ 
hood,  their  bodies  as  a  living  sacrifice — that  ducats  and  dol¬ 
lars  may  drop  into  the  treasury  box,  making  it  possible  for 
armies  of  stallfed  men  to  revel  in  questionable  luxury.  This 
arm  of  the  work  is  performed  by  the  nuns,  numbering  some 
seventy  thousand  in  the  United  States,  and  others  coming 
to  our  shores  as  the  nunneries  are  closed  by  European  Gov¬ 
ernments,  who  seem  to  take  it  for  granted  that  they  have 
had  their  share  of  the  holy  effects  of  Papal  nunneries,  and 
in  their  benevolent  moments  invite  them,  to  decamp.  The 
number  of  seventy  thousand  nuns  in  our  country  does  not 
include  the  thousands  of  young  women  who  are  compelled 
to  labor  in  these  institutions  that  the  overworked  cardinals, 
bishops  and  priests  may  have  where  to  lay  their  fat  bodies 
in  easy  contentment. 

With  this  army  of  women  begging  and  laboring  for  the 
Papal  machine,  what  will  be  the  outcome ?  This  is  no  small 
question.  The  reader  of  these  lines  must  help  decide  it. 

Following  close  in  its  wake  comes  another  question: 
Do  you  knozv  of  one  iota  of  good  for  God ,  Home  and 
Country,  a  nunnery  ever  accomplished ?  Take  your  time 
to  consider  the  question.  Give  it  the  full  benefit  of  all 


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doubt,  but  honor  bright,  did  you  ever  know  any  good  in  the 
progress  of  civilization  to  come  from  a  convent ? 

They  stand  behind  great  walls,  their  windows  are 
barred  as  state  prisons,  innocent  girls  are  duped  into  enter¬ 
ing  them  to  be  buried  to  the  world  during  their  natural 
lives.  These  thousands  of  buried  lives,  withered  woman¬ 
hood,  stifled  intellects,  disfigured  personalities,  remain  in 
these  prisons  during  their  natural  life.  The  question  we  are 
leading  up  to  is  this:  Can  you  point  to  one  iota  of  good 
either  for  God  or  humanity  these  nuns  do f  You  may  claim 
they  teach  the  orphans,  you  may  say  they  care  for  the  un¬ 
fortunate,  but  your  defense  of  the  System  is  not  satis¬ 
factory,  since  we  have  schools  by  the  thousand  where  knowl¬ 
edge  is  imparted.  We  have  in  profusion  places  to  care  for 
the  helpless  and  at  public  expense.  Can  you  in  any  possible 
way  see  any  benefit  to  humanity,  aside  from  the  priest¬ 
craft,  emanating  from  these  convents f  The  nearest  we 
have  yet  seen  of  the  good  they  do  was  only  a  few  days  ago, 
when  we  saw  two  nuns  carry  a  large  can  of  swill  from  a  res¬ 
taurant  in  one  of  our  large  cities  and  take  it  to  the  home  of 
“The  Little  Sisters  of  the  Poor”  to  feed  the  orphans.  This 
same  institution,  while  it  feeds  the  inmates  on  the  refuse 
from  hotels  and  restaurants,  keeps  a  company  of  nuns  beg¬ 
ging  Protestants  for  money  to  support  this  institution. 
Where  does  the  cash  go? 

You  have  watched  this  process  and  know  its  workings. 
Did  you  ever  ask  yourself  the  question  as  to  whether  these 
so-called  nun  houses  were  not  mere  blinds  to  get  cash  from 
Protestants  to  fill  the  insatiable  maw  of  the  Hierarchy?  It 
becomes  a  pertinent  question  these  latter  days. 

Seventy  thousand  nuns  in  America;  seventy  thousand 
women  supposedly  devoting  their  lives  to  uplifting  human- 


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ity ;  three  score  and  ten  thousand  devotees  to  the  only  man¬ 
saving  system  under  heaven.  Can  you  recall  any  real  en¬ 
during  benefit  they  have  been  during  the  past  twelve  hun¬ 
dred  years? 

Rome  is  in  America  with  all  its  regalia  and  parapher¬ 
nalia,  even  to  the  Inquisition.  While  you  sleep,  all  parts 
of  this  gigantic  political  machine  are  in  motion.  We  would 
not  have  you  forget  the  question. 

Does  the  Hierarchy  seek  to  make  America  Catholic ? 

We  pray  you  in  the  name  of  God,  Home  and  Country, 
for  the  sake  of  the  innocent  posterity  yet  to  be  born,  in 
the  sacred  cause  for  which  our  forefathers  offered  up  their 
lives  as  a  living  sacrifice  to  give  this  question  a  candid 
hearing. 


CHAPTER  VIII. 


POPERY  AND  IMMIGRATION. 


It  was  but  a  few  months  ago  that  the  Congress  of  the 
United  States  was  engrossed  with  a  measure  aimed  to  re¬ 
strict  immigration  to  our  country.  Mr.  Taft  paid  his  last 
debt  to  Popery  by  vetoing  this  measure,  and  because  of  his 
unjust  action,  no  little  excitement  was  manifested  at  the 
National  capitol.  The  rustle  of  priestly  petticoats  and  the 
jostle  of  the  Jesuits  were  much  in  evidence.  The  sacred 
sanctums  of  the  crafty  Cardinals  were  busy  places  for  the 
time.  Prelates  and  priests  pranced  and  promenaded  the 
capitol  thoroughfares,  while  the  laity  lobbied  to  prevent 
the  Senate  passing  the  bill  over  the  chief  executive's  veto. 

Why  Does  the  Hierarchy  Oppose  a  Restricted 

Immigration. 

Couple,  if  you  please,  this  question  we  propounded  in  the 
preceding  chapter,  Do  Papists  aspire  to  make  America 
Roman  Catholic ?  and  you  may  be  assisted  to  your  answer. 
Deep  down  you  will  find  a  close  connection  between  these 
two  questions.  Indeed  they  are  alarmingly  closely  related. 
Even  the  logician  would  experience  some  difficulty  in  de¬ 
fining  where  one  stops  and  the  other  begins.  But  to  re¬ 
turn  to  our  subject,  let  us  inquire  more  closely  into  the  op¬ 
position  of  Popery  to  the  immigration  bill  in  question.  Bear 
in  mind,  this  bill  was  not  particularly  aimed  at  checking  im¬ 
migration  to  our  country,  but  it  aimed  to  restrict  the  quality 
of  immigrants.  In  other  words,  it  has  no  reference  to  quan¬ 
tity,  but  to  quality. 


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m 

Alas !  here  is  where  it  rubbed  hard  against  Popery,  which 
is  not  particularly  restrictive  when  intelligence  and  other 
marks  of  civilization  are  the  test.  The  thousands  coming 
to  our  shores  are  largely  made  up  of  people  from  Southern 
Europe  and,  of  course,  Papists,  which  fact  may  have  some 
bearing  on  the  subject.  Italy,  Portugal,  Spain  and  France 
are  no  longer  conducive  to  Popery  and,  with  a  wide  open 
door  in  America,  it  became,  because  of  certain  reasons,  a 
good  investment  for  the  Vatican  to  spend  a  portion  of  its 
vast  annual  income  in  fortifying  its  ground  in  America. 

These  immigrants  can  be  made  useful  in  our  country. 
They  help  to  swell  the  number  of  Papists  with  which  the 
System  can  frighten  the  political  parties  into  profitable  con¬ 
cessions,  and  after  a  short  time  they  can  vote  and  help  elect 
Papists  to  office,  and  Papists  in  office  help  the  Hierarchy  to 
get  more  power,  and  more  power  helps  get  nearer  the  public 
treasury,  and  the  public  treasury  helps  to  get  more  securely 
entrenched,  and  entrenchment  means  further  concession 
from  politicians,  and  more  obliging  politicians  mean  more 
power. 

Remember,  Papal  power  is  gone  in  Europe,  Asia  and 
Africa.  It  is  now  too  late  for  the  immigrants  to  be  of 
any  particular  help  politically  on  those  continents.  Is  it  an 
idle  question  then  to  ask,  why  not  concentrate  the  forces  of 
the  Papacy  in  America  and  build  up  one  great  grand 
Hierarchy  rather  than  be  content  to  hold  a  more  uncertain 
place  in  half  a  dozen  doubtful  dynasties,  any  one  of  which 
is  very  likely  to  slip  away  at  any  moment?  There  was  a 
time  when  it  was  said,  “All  roads  lead  to  Rome.”  This  no 
longer  holds  good.  Far  more  correctly  can  we  say  that 
honor  now  belongs  to  America.  This  being  true,  we  may 
easily  expect-  that  along  these  roads  will  travel  much  that 


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is  not  conducive  to  the  higher  civilization,  hence  the  pur¬ 
pose  of  our  Congress  in  guarding  those  highways  and  to 
its  praise  be  ascribed  the  late  immigration  bill. 

From  what  we  have  said  it  will  be  seen  that  the  Papal 
System  opposes  our  immigration  bill  because  of  the  educa¬ 
tion  restrictions. 

Why? 

What  is  the  reason  for  the  Papal  dignitaries’  fierce  de¬ 
nunciation  of  a  restricted  immigration?  Every  religious 
sect  in  America,  unless  it  be  the  Mormons,  favors  such  a 
bill.  They  are  not  slow  in  seeing  the  benefits  it  would  be¬ 
stow  upon  us.  The  labor  organizations  heartily  supported 
the  measure  as  a  safeguard  to  the  hosts  of  wage-earners. 

Why  Then  Do  Pabists  Object  To  It? 

It  is  a  profoundly  serious  question,  a  question  every 
honest  American  citizen  should  carefully  investigate,  a  ques¬ 
tion  that  needs  close  attention,  a  question  leading  us  directly 
to  that  great 'question, 

Are  Papists  Attempting  To  Make  America  Papal? 

1.  Such  a  calamity  could  not  and  will  never  befall  us 
unless  the  immigration  from  Southern  Europe  swell  the 
Papal  ranks  until  it  holds  the  balance  of  power.  It  at  this 
moment  is  fast  gaining  from  this  source.  Hundreds  of 
thousands  annually  are  coming  to  our  shores.  Very  largely 
they  can  neither  read  nor  write,  though  they  have  had 
twelve  hundred  years  of  the  beneficent  instruction  of  the 
parochial  school.  But  if  they  are  illiterate,  they  can  vote , 
and  with  them  Cardinal  Gibbons  can  hoodwink  political 
parties  and  further  his  schemes.25 


25.  The  1910  Census  Bulletin  says :  “For  the  ten  years  between 
the  taking  of  the  censuses  of  1900  and  1910  the  total  immigration 
was  about  8,500,000.  Of  this  total,  about  6,100,000,  or  72  per  cent. 


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2.  We  have  said  the  Papal  Hierarchy  is  a  political 
machine,  that  it  is  intensely  in  politics;  is  there  any  con¬ 
nection  then  between  this  charge  and  papal  opposition  to  re¬ 
stricting  immigration?  This  is  just  now  a  profoundly  sig¬ 
nificant  question  for  American  citizens  to  ponder.  We  have 
shown  that  both  are  facts  and  shall  leave  it  to  the  honor  and 
patriotism  of  true  Americans  to  suggest  the  remedy.  Shall 
we  let  the  subject  rest  where  the  Princes  of  the  blood  slew 
it ,  or  shall  we  set  about  to  rescue  the  corpse  and  inject  new 
life  into  the  sleeping  carcass ?  Every  American  citizen 
should  insist  on  his  Congressman  taking  up  the  measure 
now  before  Congress,  and  lend  his  aid  in  having  it  de¬ 
veloped  into  a  law. 

No  one  questions  the  need  of  such  a  measure  which  all 
concede  will  jar  loose  the  chief  props  of  Popery  in  America. 
“As  a  man  soweth ,  so  shall  he  reap!' 


were  from  southern  and  eastern  Europe,  and  about  1,800,000,  or  20 
per  cent,  from  Northwestern  Europe.  Study  these  statistics  a 
moment  and  see  if  there  be  a  need  of  laws  restricting  immigration. 
Scandinavia  and  Germany,  the  source  of  our  desirable  immigration, 
has  largely  fallen  off,  and  the  increase  has  come  from  such  coun¬ 
tries  as  Italy,  Austria,  Mexico,  Spain,  Portugal  and  Hungary. 

In  no  part  of  the  globe  is  there  a  more  mongrelized  people  than 
most  of  these  immigrants.  If  they  possessed  redeeming  qualities 
otherwise,  it  will  take  a  thousand  years  to  absorb  them  in  our 
American  race.  Yet  they  can  vote,  and  the  prelates  of  the  Roman 
Catholic  Church  can  manipulate  politics,  with  votes.  .  Again  we  ask 
the  question,  Do  we  need  a  law  restraining  immigration? 


CHAPTER  IX. 


CAN  A  PAPIST  BE  AN  AMERICAN  CITIZEN? 


No  Man  Can  Serve  Two  Masters. 


This  is  a  question  now  going  the  rounds  and,  while  we 
are  not  questioning  the  honor  or  patriotism  of  the  individual 
Roman  Catholic  laity,  we  do  know  that  there  is  occasion  for 
the  question.  If  the  writer  were  to  swear  allegiance  to 
King  George  of  England,  he  could  hardly  be  classed  as  an 
American  citizen,  though  he  may  continue  to  reside  in  this 
country  indefinitely. 

We  will  show  that  Papists,  especially  priests,  and  all 
others  bearing  an  official  title  are  sworn  to  allegiance  first 
to  the  Pope  and  then  to  his  government.  CAN  HE  THEN 
BE  A  CITIZEN  OF  OUR  COUNTRY?  Would  Canada 

i 

recognize  you  as  a  citizen  if  you  located  in  that  country 
and  presented  your  naturalization  papers  modified  to  the 
extent  of  saying  that  you  would  swear  allegiance  first  to 
the  United  States,  and  then  to  Canada?  Just  think  of  the 
proposition  for  a  moment.  The  Pope  of  Rome  demands  the 
allegiance  of  Papists  first  to  himself,  then  to  the  govern¬ 
ment.  Now,  can  a  Papist  be  a  citizen  of  the  United  States 
in  the  sense  you  and  I  are  citizens?  You  say  that  you  know 
Papists  who  are  just  as  loyal  as  we  are.  You  point  out  ex¬ 
amples  where  Papists  have  illustrated  their  patriotism  in  a 
most  effective  manner.  We  will  agree  with  you  in  the  main, 
but  remember  this  loyalty  may  have  been  such  as  the  Pope 
did  not  object  to. 


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The  following  statistics  were  published  in  the  Sun,  the 
New  York  City  Roman  Catholic  daily,  on  August  30,  1891/ 
and  also  in  the  Boston  Globe,  Sept.  27,  1891.  In  order  to 
refute  the  claim,  Papists  made  a  search  in  the  Pension  De¬ 
partment  and,  of  course,  the  claim  was  untrue  until  Mr.  R. 
J.  Long  of  the  American  Citizen  pointed  them  to  the  War 
Department,  since  which  time  no  denial  has  been  made. 
Here  is  the  comparison  as  printed  in  the  paper  named  :26 


Enlistments  1861-1865. 


Native  Americans 

Germans  . 

Irish  . 

British  Americans 

English  . . . 

Other  foreigners. 


Per  Cent. 

1,523,000 

75.48 

177,800 

8.76 

144,200 

7.14 

53,500 

2.60 

45,500 

2.26 

74,800 

3.76 

2,018,800 

Desertions. 

Per  Cent. 


Irish  .  72 

Germans  .  16 

Americans  .  5 

All  others . .  7 


A  very  interesting  bit  of  history  concerning  the  Pope’s 
army  standing  hitched  in  time  of  war  is  found  in  William 
Jay’s  Review  of  the  Mexican  War,  page  208.  Speaking  of 
the  Irish  regiment  forming  a  part  of  the  American  army, 
he  says :  “On  reaching  Mexico,  they  discovered  that  they 
had  been  hired  by  heretics  to  slaughter  brethren  of  their 


26.  Parochial  School  Fallacies,  p.  94. 


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own  church.  The  Mexicans,  moreover,  published  appeals 
addressed  directly  to  their  consciences,  in  which  was  set 
forth,  in  strong  language,  the  sin  they  were  committing  in 
fighting  against  men  who  had  never  injured  them,  and  who 
were  united  with  them  in  a  common  faith.”  Some  fifty  of 
these  deserters  were  taken  in  battle  and  on  the  22nd  of 
September,  1847,  these  unfortunate  parochial  school  grad¬ 
uates  were  hanged  as  traitors,  as  the  American  flag  was 
raised  upon  the  battlements  of  Chepultepec. 

The  great  question  is,  Would  the  class  of  Papists  who 
would  enlist  in  our  war  stand  by  the  guns  if  the  Pope  said 
otherwise ? 

Facts  show  the  hand  of  the  Pope  meddling  in  the  confed¬ 
eracy,  hence  the  great  number  of  desertions  from  the  north¬ 
ern  ranks.  They  did  not  desert  because  they  did  not  love  the 
country,  but  because  the  Pope  commanded  them  to.  They 
are  not  to  be  censured.  It  was  supposed  a  matter  of  the 
eternal  damnation  of  their  immortal  souls  to  do  otherwise. 

It 

Another  question  presents  itself  in  this  connection.  Our 
army  and  navy,  especially  the  latter,  is  largely  dominated 
by  Papists.  Would  they  stand  hitched  if  the  order  from 
the  Pope  came  to  them  during  a  war  such  as  we  might  be¬ 
come  engaged  in?  Of  course,  you  assume  they  would,  but 
they  did  not  in  our  civil  war  and  your  mere  assumption 
would  not  make  it  so  in  future  wars.  The  question  is  too 
serious  to  leave  it  rest  on  mere  assumption.  It  is  far  more 
sane  to  “in  time  of  peace  prepare  for  war.” 

The  question  under  consideration  is  an  important  one. 
The  reader  is  requested  to  first  study  the  grip  Popery  has 
on  its  subjects  before  he  attempts  to  form  his  final  conclu¬ 
sions.  Such  a  thing  is  so  foreign  to  the  most  of  us  we 
cannot  conceive  the  possibility  of  an  innate  fear  so  strong 


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as  to  overshadow  everything  else  under  the  sun,  but,  be¬ 
loved,  such  a  fear  exists  right  here  in  America  in  this  twen¬ 
tieth  century.  Popery  has  so  •  completely  uncovered  tHat 
unmentionable  abyss  and  so  forcefully  advertised  its  power 
to  consign  or  rescue  immortal  souls  from  its  inscrutable 
torments  that  loyalty  to  governments  is  indeed  of  secondary 
consideration.  Let  us  tarry  right  here  to  remark  that  this 
is  the  very  center  and  circumference  of  our  quarrel  with 
Popery — any  system  holding  the  minds  of  human  beings  in 
such  a  grip  is  too  supremely  damnable  to  be  allowed  to  exist 
even  in  the  heart  of  America.  What  we  have  said  is  most 
significant  in  trying  to  decide  the  question  as  to  whether  a 
true  Papist  can  be  an  American  citizen.  In  forming  your 
conclusion,  you  cannot  escape  its  bearing  on  the  subject. 

The  remark  is  oftentimes  made  that  the  Papal  Hierarchy 
exercises  such  wonderful  power  over  its  subjects.  Verily 
this  is  true.  Just  as  Hindooism,  Mohammedannism,  Mor- 
monism,  and  Brahminism  hold  their  subject  in  their  power. 
Why?  Simply  the  people  are  taught  from  infancy  that  the 
priestcraft  possesses  more  than  human  powers,  just  like  the 
ancient  pagan  priests  held  that  it  holds  in  its  hands  the  keys 
to  heaven  and  eternal  damnation  in  hell.  This  is  the  true 
secret  of  this  abject  subservience  and  easily  explains  why 
Papists  owe  allegiance  to  the  Pope  at  Rome.  This  is  why 
the  priestcraft  is  so  universally  feared  by  the  Papal  laity. 
This  is  why  the  question  has  been  raised.  No  man  can 
serve  two  masters.  No  man  can  be  a  true  American  citi¬ 
zen  while  he  is  conscious  of  owing  the  Pope  at  Rome  his 
first  and  best  allegiance.  i 

As  to  priest  and  prelate  who  take  those  ironclad  oaths, 
no  country  should  grant  them  citizenship,  and  if  Americans 
today  fully  understood  those  oaths  not  one  of  them  would 


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115 


be  permitted  to  exercise  that  franchise.  Not  one  of  them 
would  hesitate  one  moment  to  make  choice  between  country 
and  Pope  if  the  test  came.  If  he  did,  he  would  violate  one 
of  the  most  binding  oaths  in  existence. 

The  question  arises,  do  not  Papists  vote  for  good  meas¬ 
ures  the  same  as  Americans?  To  be  sure  they  do,  but  this 
is  no  test  whatsoever.  Give  the  Papacy  the  power  and  then 
see  how  they  would  vote.  Until  that  is  done  such  argument 
has  no  bearing  on  our  subject.  The  test  alone  can  decide 
the  question.  We  have  had  but  two  such  tests  so  far,  as 
we  have  already  stated.  What  we  are  now  interested  in 
is,  if  the  Pope  took  sides  with  an  opposing  power,  would 
Papists  stand  true  to  our  flag?  This  is  at  this  moment  not 
an  idle  question  in  any  sense.  Indeed,  it  is  a  profoundly 
significant  question  for  Americans  to  consider,  as  the  fol¬ 
lowing  plainly  indicates : 

We  take  this  extract  from  a  sermon  preached  in  St. 
Louis,  June  30,  1912,  by  priest  D.  S.  Phelan,  editor  of  the 
well-known  Romanist  church  paper,  The  Western  Watch¬ 
man,  of  that  city.  Priest  Phelan  said: 

“And  why  is  it  that  the  church  is  strong;  why  is  it  every¬ 
body  is  afraid  of  the  Catholic  Church?  And  the  American 
people  are  more  afraid  of  her  than  any  people  of  the  world. 
Why  are  they  afraid  of  the  Catholic  Church?  They  know 
what  the  Catholic  Church  means.  It  means  all  the  Catholics 
of  the  world;  not  of  one  country,  or  two  countries,  but  all 
the  countries  of  the  world. 

“And  it  means  more  than  that;  it  means  that  the  Cath¬ 
olics  of  the  world  love  the  church  more  than  anything  else, 
that  the  Catholics  of  the  world  love  the  church  more  than 
they  do  their  own  governments,  more  than  they  do  their  oven 
nation ,  more  than  they  do  their  own  people,  more  than  they 


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do  their  own  fortunes,  more  than  they  do  their  own  selves, 

“We  of  the  Catholic  Church  are  ready  to  go  to  the  death 
for  the  church.  Under  God,  she  is  the  supreme  subject  of 
our  worship.  Tell  us  we  think  more  of  the  church  than  we 
do  of  the  United  States;  of  course  we  do.  Tell  us  we  are 
Catholics  first  and  Americans  or  Englishmen  afterward;  of 
course  we  are. 

“Tell  us,  in  the  conflict  between  the  church  and  the  civil 
government  we  take  the  side  of  the  church ;  of  course  we  do. 
Why,  if  the  government  of  the  United  States  were  at  war 
with  the  church  we  would  say  tomorrow,  to  hell  with  the 
government  of  the  United  States;  and  if  the  church  and  all 
the  governments  of  the  world  were  at  war  we  would  say, 
to  hell  with  all  the  governments  of  the  world. 

“They  say  we  are  Catholics  first  and  Americans  decid¬ 
edly  afterward.  There  is  no  doubt  about  it.  We  are  Cath¬ 
olics  first  and  we  love  the  church  more  than  we  love  any 
and  all  the  governments  of  the  world. 

“Let  the  governments  of  the  world  steer  clear  of  the 
Catholic  church;  let  the  emperors,  let  the  kings,  and  the 
presidents  not  come  into  conflict  with  the  head  of  the  Cath¬ 
olic  Church.  Because  the  Catholic  Church  is  everything  to 
all  the  Catholics  of  the  world ;  they  renounce  all  nationalities 
where  there  is  a  question  of  loyalty  to  her.  And  why  is  it 
that  hope  is  so  strong?  Why  is  it  that  in  this  country, 
where  we  have  only  seven  per  cent  of  the  population,  the 
Catholic  Church  is  so  much  feared?  She  is  loved  by  all 
her  children  and  feared  by  everybody. 

“Why  is  it  the  Pope  is  such  a  tremendous  power?  Why, 
the  Pope  is  the  ruler  of  the  world.  All  the  emperors,  all 
the  kings,  all  the  princes,  all  the  presidents  of  the  world 
today  are  as  these  altar  boys  of  mine.  The  Pope  is  the  ruler 


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m 

of  the  world.  Why?  Because  he  is  the  ruler  of  the  Cath¬ 
olics  of  the  world,  the  Catholics  of  all  the  world;  and  the 
Catholics  of  all  the  world  would  die  for  the  rights  of  the 
Pope.  He  is  the  head  of  the  church,  and  they  would  die 
for  the  church. 

“And  the  church  is  the  church  of  Jesus  Christ,  and  they 
need  not  have  any  misgivings  on  that  score;  there  need  be 
no  misconceptions  there — the  Catholics  of  the  world  are 
Catholics  first  and  always ;  they  are  Americans,  they  are 
Germans,  they  are  French,  or  they  are  English  afterward.” 

This  priest  is  reputed  to  voice  the  sentiments  of  the 
Vatican  and  high  dignitaries  of  the  Papacy  as  few  others 
of  his  rank  in  America  dare  do.  There  is  no  evidence  thus 
far  that  his  treasonable  utterances  have  been  even  criticised 
by  Papists,  even  by  the  Papal  censored  newspapers  of  our 
country.  Were  a  Methodist  pastor  to  use  such  words,  every 
newspaper  in  the  land  would  take  up  the  refrain  and  cry 
treason,  until  they  became  too  hoarse  to  make  a  noise. 

Beloved  American,  we  ask  can  you  call  such*  a  treason¬ 
able  priest  a  desirable  citizen  of  these  United  States? 

The  Catholic  World ,  evidently  voicing  the  sentiment  of 

some  one  higher  up,  says:  “We  hold  that  if  the  government 
is  sustained  it  must  reject  the  principles  of  the  reformation, 
and  accept  the  Catholic  principle,  which  is  the  government 
from  the  Pope:  That  the  Pope  issues  the  orders  to  which 
every  Catholic  must  yield  obedience 

Is  it  worth  while  for  Americans  to  sit  up  and  take  notice 
when  hundreds  of  thousands  of  illiterate  superstitious  Pap¬ 
ists  are  landed  on  our  shores  and  are  being  exclusively 
herded  by  some  priest  whose  oath  of  obedience  to  an  igno¬ 
rant  Italian  Pope  we  here  give : 

“I, . . ,  now  in  the  presence  of  Almighty 

God,  the  blessed  Virgin  Mary,  the  blessed  Michael  the  Arch- 


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angel,  the  blessed  St.  John  the  Baptist,  the  Holy  Apostles 
St.  Peter  and  St.  Paul  [and  Minneapolis],  and  the  Saints 
and  the  Sacred  Hosts  of  Heaven,  and  to  you  my  Lord,  I  do 
declare  from  my  heart,  without  mental  reservation,  that  the 
Pope  is  Christ’s  vicar-general  and  is  the  true  and  only  head 
of  the  Universal  Church  throughout  the  earth,  and  that,  by 
virtue  of  the  keys  of  binding  and  loosing  given  to  His  Holi¬ 
ness  by  Jesus  Christ,  he  has  power  to  depose  heretical  kings, 
princes,  states,  commonwealths  and  governments,  all  being 
illegal  without  sacred  confirmation,  and  that  they  may 
safely  be  destroyed.  Therefore,  to  the  utmost  of  my  power, 
I  will  defend  the  doctrine  and  His  Holiness’  rights  and  cus¬ 
toms  against  all  usurpers  of  the  Protestant  authority  what¬ 
soever,  especially  against  the  now  pretending  authority  and 
church  in  England  and  all  adherents  in  regard  that  they 
be  usurpal  and  heretical,  opposing  the  Sacred  Mother,  the 
Church  of  Rome. 

“I  do  now  denounce  and  disown  any  allegiance  as  due  to 
any  Protestant  king,  prince  or  state,  or  obedience  to  any  of 
their  inferior  officers.  I  do  further  declare  the  doctrine  of 
the  Church  of  England,  of  the  Calvinists,  Huguenots  and 
other  Protestants  to  be  damned  who  will  not  forsake  the 
same .  -  ^ 

I  do  further  declare  that  I  will  help,  assist  and  advise  all 
or  any  of  His  Holiness ’  agents  in  any  place  wherever  I  shall 
be,  and  do  my  utmost  to  extirpate  the  Protestant  doctrine, 
and  to  destroy  all  their  pretended  power,  legal  or  otherwise. 
I  do  further  promise  and  declare  that,  notwithstanding  I 
may  be  permitted  by  dispensation  to  assume  any  heretical 
religion  (Protestant  denominations)  for  the  propagation 
of  the  Mother  Church’s  interest,  to  keep  secret  and  private 
all  her  agents’  counsels  as  they  entrust  me,  and  not  to  di- 


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vulge,  directly  or  indirectly,  by  word,  writing  or  circum¬ 
stances  whatsoever,  but  to  execute  all  which  shall  be  pro¬ 
posed,  given  in  charge,  or  discovered  unto  me  by  you,  my 
most  Reverend  Lord  and  Bishop. 

“All  of  which  I, . .  do  swear  by  the 

blessed  Trinity  and  Sacrament,  which  I  am  about  to  receive 
to  perform  on  my  part,  to  keep  inviolable,  and  do  call  on  all 
the  Heavenly  and  Glorious  Hosts  of  Heaven  to  witness  my 
real  intentions  to  keep  this  my  OATH. 

“In  testimony  whereof,  I  take  this  most  holy  and  blessed 
Sacrament  of  the  Eucharist,  and  witness  the  same  further 
with  my  consecrated  hand,  in  the  presence  of  my  holy 
bishop  and  all  the  priests  who  assist  him  in  my  ordination  to 
priesthood.” 

Can  anyone  who  would  subscribe  to  this  oath  be  an 
American  citizen?  Can  such  a  one  be  trusted  in  any  coun¬ 
try  to  lead  the  people  in  any  capacity  ?  Are  they  worthy  of 
the  confidence  of  civilized  people  in  any  age?  These  scav¬ 
engers  of  the  Papal  System  are  circulating  among  our  citi¬ 
zens  as  men  of  God  bent  on  the  uplift  preservation  of  the 
rights  of  mankind.  In  every  country  when  they  have 
gained  power,  both  the  government  and  the  people  have 
suffered  from  and  sorely  lamented  their  existence. 

Again,  beloved  American,  we  ask  you  if  you  can  call  a 
Papal  priest  a  citizen  of  the  United  States ? 

Verily  America  hath  a  Menace. 

More  About  Papal  Oaths. 

We  well  know  that  priests  will  deny  the  oath  we  have 
quoted.  Archbishop  Purcell,  in  his  debate  with  Dr.  Alex¬ 
ander  Campbell  at  Cincinnati,  denied  it  until  Dr.  Campbell 
proved  he  did  take  this  oath.  He  then,  in  defense  of  his 
position,  said  he  thought  he  was  debating  with  a  gentle- 


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man  and  wept  a  lot  of  crocodile  tears.  But  tears  won’t 
drown  truth.  All  the  prelates,  priests  and  puppets  cannot 
deny  that  the  priests  take  an  oath  and  that  this  oath  is  swear¬ 
ing  first  allegiance  to  the  Pope  of  Rome  and  if  any  residue 
of  loyalty  and  allegiance  be  left,  it  flows  to  the  Constitution 
of  the  United  States  of  America. 

Papal  theology  teaches: 

1.  That  witnesses  in  civil  courts  are  justified  in  swear¬ 
ing  falsely  if  thereby  they  help  or  defend  the  interests  of 
the  church. 

2.  That  an  oath  of  allegiance  to  a  nation  or  ruler  is 
not  binding  if  the  church  disapproves  of  it. 

3.  That  no  obligation  or  oath  of  any  description  is  bind¬ 
ing  except  the  church  approves  of  it. 

4.  That  Papal  oaths  or  obligations  may  be  secretly  con¬ 
formed  to  environment,  if  thereby  the  church  is  preserved 
from  harm. 

These  statements  are  confirmed  in  the  testimony  given 
below,  the  first  being  from  Rev.  Joseph  Connellan  of  The 
Catholic,  Dublin,  Ireland : 

“In  the  London  Daily  News,  October  20,  we  have  an 
interesting  correspondence  on  the  Roman  Catholic  bishop’s 
oath.  The  present  Roman  Catholic  Archbishop  of  West¬ 
minster  was  asked  by  the  Daily  News  whether  the  oath  still 
contained  a  promise  to  ‘persecute  and  assail  all  heretics,  etc.’ 
Here  is  the  reply:  ‘No,  an  altered  form  of  the  oath  has 
been  authorized,  in  which  this  clause  is  omitted,  and  this 
altered  form  is  the  only  one  used  in  the  British  Empire.’ 
Further  on  we  are  told  that  ‘on  July  3,  1847,  Pope  Pius  IX. 
extended  the  same  form  to  all  parts  of  the  United  States.’ 
Thus  the  clause  translated,  7  will  persecute /  is  not  in  use  in 
any  of  the  English-speaking  countries.” 


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“So  the  oath  stands  unrevised,  save  in  English-speaking 
countries.  Even  in  those,  on  the  authority  of  Monsignor 
Moyes,  who  writes  for  the  Archbishop,  there  has  been  no 
real  change.  For  he  says,  ‘the  alteration  made  in  the  form 
of  the  oath  altered  in  no  respect  the  obligations  of  the 
bishops,  nor  was  it  due  in  any  way  to  any  change  or  modifi¬ 
cation  of  the  church’s  attitude  toward  what  she  holds  to  be 
heresy  or  schism.’  What,  then,  was  the  meaning  of  the 
deleted  clause?  ‘To  Roman  Catholic  canonists,’  he  de¬ 
clares,  ‘the  clause  means  simply  that  a  Catholic  bishop  shall 
try,  and,  if  need  be,  remove  from  the  membership  of  the 
church,  members  of  the  fold,  clergy  or  laity,  who  reject  her 
teaching  or  authority.’  This,  he  adds,  is  ‘what  an  Anglican 
Bishop  or  a  Wesleyan  conference  would  do’  in  similar  cir¬ 
cumstances. 

“This  is  all  very  simple  and  harmless,  only  history  and 
experience  are  against  the  Monsignor’s  rendering.  The 
clause  is  generally  translated,  ‘I  will  persecute  and  assail  all 
heretics,  schismatica,  etc.’  Monsignor  Moyes  declares  that 
persequor  and  oppugno,  the  words  translated  ‘persecute’ 
and  ‘assail,’  really  mean  ‘to  persecute’  and  ‘contend  against.’ 
But,  unfortunately  for  his  contention,  persequor  also  means 
‘to  avenge,’  ‘to  take  vengeance  on ;’  and  oppugno  means  ‘to 
attack’  or  ‘assail.’  And  history,  even  as  written  by  Rome’s 
friends,  testifies  that  Rome  did  something  more  than  simply 
put  heretics  and  schismatics,  ‘clergy  or  laity,’  outside  her 
membership.  Mr.  Wilfred  Ward,  B.  A.,  Roman  Catholic 
member  of  the  recent  University  Commission,  is  quoted  in 
Mr.  Frank  Hugh  O’Donnell’s  ‘Ruin  of  Education’  as  say¬ 
ing  apropos  of  the  Marian  persecutions :  ‘A  war  of  this 
kind  declared  against  heresy,  in  which  not  even  repentance 
could  save  the  victim  from  the  stake,  caused  a  deep  dread 


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of  Roman  fanaticism  and  Roman  power,  the  effects  of  which 
have  not  entirely  passed  away  to  his  hour.’ 

“Therefore,  if  the  clause  stands  in  its  original  meaning, 
it  stands  for  persecution.  Monsignor  Moyes  says :  ‘Oh !  but 
the  church  never  persecuted.  She  simply  handed  the  heretic, 
after  excommunication,  over  to  the  civil  authority.’  Yes, 
and  then  she  held  a  pistol  to  the  civil  authority’s  head.  Even 
today  at  the  fountain  head  of  Roman  Catholicism  ‘death 
to  heretics’  is  taught.  In  the  Gregorian  University  at  Rome 
there  is  a  distinguished  canonist,  professor,  and  theologian, 
Rev.  Frank  Marianus  de  Luca,  S.  J.,  who  holds  the  impor¬ 
tant  chair  of  the  Text  of  the  Decretals,  and  is  justly  es¬ 
teemed  as  one  of  the  foremost  minds  of  the  Jesuit  Society.” 
So  writes  Mr.  F.  H.  O’Donnell,  M.  A.,  in  his  ‘Ruin  of  Edu¬ 
cation,’  p.  187.  This  professor  has  written  extensively  on 
Canon  and  Public  Ecclesiastical  Law,  and  with  the  cordial 
approval  of  his  superiors.  Amongst  other  things,  he  teaches : 
‘That  (a)  the  church  of  Christ  has  the  right  of  inflicting  the 
pain  of  death.’  (b)  ‘As  a  perfect  society  the  church  must 
kill.’  (c)  Killing  heretics  is  conducive  to  faith,  (d)  The 
church  is  better  entitled  to  kill  than  the  state,  (e)  The  re¬ 
quest  to  the  civil  magistrate  ‘not  to  kill’  is  about  equivalent 
to  ‘Don’t  nail  his  ear  to  the  pump.’  (‘ Tamen  declaratum  est 
magistratum  civilem  per  hoc  non  obligari  et .  sanguinem 
non  effiendendum .’) — Institutions,  Vol.  1,  p.  145.  (f)  The 
state  is  bound  to  kill  when  ordered  by  the  church,  (g)  Not 
the  amendment,  but  the  death  of  the  heretic  is  necessary, 
(h)  ‘By  fire  as  well  as  by  sword.’  (j)  Civil  governments  re¬ 
fusing  to  kill  heretics  are  to  be  deposed.  All  this  our  read¬ 
ers  can  see  for  themselves  in  the  closing  pages  of  Mr. 
O’Donnell’s  book.  We  can  understand  from  the  foregoing 
what  Rome  intended  in  framing  the  oath  of  her  bishops, 


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and  what  her  spirit  is  today.  Fortunately  for  poor  human¬ 
ity,  Protestantism  has  broken  her  power. 

“We  pass  from  this  painful  subject  with  one  extract 
from  the  present-day  teaching  of  Father  de  Luca.  It  has 
the  approval,  as  already  pointed  out,  of  his  superiors.  But 
instead  of  being  Christian,  it  is  truly  diabolical.  ‘The  Cath¬ 
olic  Church  has  the  right  and  the  duty  to  kill  heretics,  be¬ 
cause  it  is  by  fire  and  sword  that  heresy  can  be  extir¬ 
pated — mere  excommunication  is  derided  by  the  heretics. 
If  they  are  imprisoned  or  exiled,  they  corrupt  others.  The 
only  recourse  is  to  put  them  to  death.  Repentance  cannot 
be  allowed  to  save  them,  just  as  repentance  is  not  allowed 
to  save  criminals;  for  the  highest  good  of  the  church  is 
unity  of  faith,  and  this  cannot  be  preserved  unless  heretics 
are  put  to  death — haec  servari  nequit  nisi  hereticus  merti 
tradatur. — (‘Ruin  of  Education,’  p.  1.)  This,  though  the 
spirit  of  Rome,  is  not  the  spirit  of  Christ.”27 

27.  Taken  from  Rome’s  Secret  Societies  and  Oaths. 


CHAPTER  X. 


A  MESSAGE  FOR  THE  ROMAN  CATHOLIC  LAITY. 


Whatever  may  have  been  said  in  these  pages  about  the 
Roman  Catholic  hierarchy  has  been  said  in  the  spirit  of 
most  profound  sympathy  for  the  laity  of  that  System.  For 
you  we  have  nothing  but  the  most  sincere  sympathy  and  re¬ 
spect,  and  for  your  emancipation  have  these  pages  been 
written.  For  every  one  of  you  we  labor  to  bring  you  out 
into  the  full  liberty  of  real  true  men ;  to  you  we  would  see 
come  that  freedom  of  thought,  freedom  of  conscience,  which 
belongs  to  real  manhood;  to  you  we  long  to  see  that  enjoy¬ 
ment  of  intellectual  liberty  which  the  Protestants  enjoy 
without  being  told  what  to  think  and  how  far  to  think  on 
any  subject. 

In  other  words  our  ambition  is  to  see  you  take  your 
place  in  the  world  as  real  men  held  back  by  no  mediaeval 
tradition,  no  ecclesiastical  restrictions,  or  Pagan  supersti¬ 
tions. 

You  are  the  victims  of  birth  and  education,  as  unfor¬ 
tunate  as  it  has  proved  to  be  impotent  in  your  preparation 
to  take  your  place  in  life  with  men  who  are  free  of  the  limi¬ 
tations  your  System  imposes  upon  you.  We  know  being 
born  into  a  system  of  superstition  is  no  fault  of  yours ;  we 
know  you  have  been  deprived  of  the  opportunities  of  your 
birthright;  we  know  you  are  capable  of  as  true  aspirations, 
as  great  accomplishments,  as  lofty  purposes,  as  rich  re¬ 
wards  if  left  free  as  others  are  in  the  development  of  these 
attributes.  This  is  the  chief  aim  of  this  greeting  to  you  at 


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this  time.  Your  shackles  are  our  burden,  your  liberation 
our  prayer.  Before  you  were  born  the  shackles  were  placed 
upon  you  and  you  were  practically  mortgaged  to  a  system 
that  has  fastened  itself  upon  you  as  a  ghostly  nightmare 
and  under  its  heavy  weight  you  have  struggled  to  be  men 
with  a  thousand  odds  against  you.  As  you  grew  to  man¬ 
hood,  aspirations  to  become  the  equal  of  any  man  were 
choked  back  by  the  withering  breath  of  the  System  into 
which  you  were  unfortunately  born  when  you  landed  in  this 
world. 

It  is  not  necessary  to  remind  you  that  your  System  has 
produced  no  really  great  men.  Nations  have  for  a  thou¬ 
sand  years  sat  under  its  teaching  and  no  great  achievements 
in  the  march  to  a  high  civilization  have  been  recorded.  No 

renowned  statesmen,  no  illustrious  hero,  no  leading  edu- 

** 

cator,  no  prominent  reformer,  no  remarkable  orator,  no 
foremost  citizen  has  yet  arisen  out  of  your  System  to  go 
down  in  history  to  serve  posterity  as  a  pattern.. 

We  do  not  say  this  in  the  sense  which  might  be  con¬ 
strued  as  laying  any  blame  upon  you ;  we  say  it  to  convince 
you  that  the  System  in  whose  clutches  you  are  placed  is 
unworthy  to  longer  hold  you  back  and  rob  you  of  those  at¬ 
tributes  which  make  for  full-fledged  men. 

You  are  men  possessed  of  power  to  think,  and  in  your 
secret  thought  you  do  not  believe  that  your  System  pos¬ 
sesses  the  exclusive  corner  on  salvation  of  the  human  race. 
You  do  not  believe  that  the  men  who  have  in  the  past  cen¬ 
turies  done  so  much  to  advance  civilization  and  who  wrote 
those  immortal  words  on  the  escutcheon  of  freedom  of 
thought  and  of  speech,  the  brotherhood  of  man,  are  de¬ 
praved  creatures  lost  to  God  and  to  the  world  as  your  Sys¬ 
tem  teaches.  In  your  own  minds,  irrespective  of  the  priest- 


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craft  of  your  System,  you  know  that  these  men  are  the 
equal  and  the  superior  of  any  Roman  Catholic.  You  cer¬ 
tainly  do  not  accept  the  doctrine  of  that  graft-getting  buga¬ 
boo,  purgatory ,  which  came  into  your  System  centuries 
after  it  was  established  and  in  which  good  Catholics  suffer 
the  torments  of  the  damned  unless  some  priest,  who  is  an 
ordinary  human  being  just  as  you  are,  chooses  to  unlock 
the  doors  of  torment  and  liberate  that  soul.  With  all  the 
influence  of  your  early  education,  you  cannot  now  conceive 
it  possible  that  a  soul  must  remain  in  torment  indefinitely  un¬ 
less  some  priest  has  his  heart  softened  with  dollars  in  order 
to  relieve  that  soul.  Think,  men,  what  this  means.  Think 
of  being  part  and  parcel  of  a  System  so  damnably  heart¬ 
less  as  to  refuse  to  relieve  suffering  even  on  this  earth  until 
his  greedy  maw  had  been  first  satisfied  with  contributions  of 
money.  What  would  you  say  of  a  man  whom  you  saw  re¬ 
fuse  to  rescue  a  helpless  person  from  a  burning  building 
until  some  one  stepped  up  and  paid  him  money  in  order  to 
move  his  heart?  Great  God,  how  unthinkable.  The  most 
depraved  criminal  in  our  penal  institutions  would  not  hesi¬ 
tate  one  second  to  render  aid  in  such  an  emergency,  though 
your  own  priests  will  let  souls  fry  in  torment  till  the  judg¬ 
ment  day  and  not  raise  a  hand  to  help  them  unless  they  are 
paid  for  the  service  in  the  coin  of  the  realm. 

You  know  it  is  the  implement  of  the  priestcraft  to  wring 
money  from  the  faithful  ones  and  for  this  purpose  it  was 
created  and  adopted  by  your  System.  In  order  to  hold  the 
whip  over  you,  your  priests  assume  the  power  to  forgive 
your  sins,  and  without  the  exercise  of  this  divine  power  you 
are  eternally  lost  throughout  all  eternity.  Now,  brothers, 
if  you  will  use  your  thinking  powers  just  one  moment,  you 


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cannot  help  but  know  that  such  a  doctrine  is  delusive  and 
damnable. 

You  know  just  as  sure  as  you  know  anything  that  there 
is  not,  cannot  be,  any  power  in  the  priest  other  than  you 
yourselves  possess.  You  know  that  he  is  a  human  being 
and  fully  as  human  as  you  are  and  that  he  has  no  power 
to  forgive  you  the  sins  of  your  inmost  heart  any  more  than 
has  a  stone.  How  under  heaven  can  you  have  any  respect 
for  a  man  who  plays  the  role  of  a  deceiver  in  so  important 
a  point  as  the  immortal  soul  of  a  human  being?  How  can  you 
tolerate  for  one  moment  a  doctrine  that  has  its  foundation 
in  a  besotted  Paganism  which  was  created  in  order  to  exer¬ 
cise  power  over  people  to  be  used  for  personal  gain? 
Great  God,  men,  how  can  you  countenance  such  a  doctrine, 
which  at  best  is  unscriptural,  unthinkable,  unjust  and  unrea¬ 
sonable?  These  men  who  assume  to  forgive  sins  are  in 
ninety-nine  cases  out  of  a  hundred  not  half  so  honest,  not 
half  as  godly,  not  half  so  virtuous,  not  half  so  sober,  not 
half  so  spiritual  as  you  are.  Wherefore  have  they  the  power 
that  belongs  only  to  Almighty  God  and  you  cast  off  to  run 
the  gauntlet  of  being  able  to  reach  some  petticoated  human 
being  in  order  that  your  sins  might  be  forgiven  and  all  the 
while  the  mercy  of  a  gracious  God  inviting  you  to  come 
direct  to  a  throne  of  grace  and  find  forgiveness  in  abundance 
for  your  shortcomings.  Could  reason  be  more  completely 
dethroned  than  to  believe  in  the  power  of  man  to  forgive 
sins? 

Then  again,  your  System  is  not  satisfied  with  wither¬ 
ing  your  hopes,  with  warping  your  aspirations,  with  curbing 
your  ambitions,  with  stifling  your  aims,  with  curtailing  your 
liberties,  but  it  comes  between  you  and  your  God  by  assum¬ 
ing  to  be  the  sole  possessor  of  the  keys  to  the  great  unknown 


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and  in  this  way  holds  you  in  its  strong  embrace  FOR  A 
PURPOSE.  What  this  purpose  is  you  may  gather  from 

the  chapters  of  this  book.  The  Hierarchy  to  which  you  be¬ 
long  cannot  plead  that  it  is  holding  you,  because  it  turns 
out  better  men,  more  fully  equipped  men,  men  who  more 
generally  pass  to  the  leadership  in  the  great  achievements 
of  the  world,  men  who  become  the  greater  educators,  men 
who  receive  the  plaudits  of  mankind  for  their  marvelous 
achievements,  men  who  are  foremost  in  lightening  the  bur¬ 
dens  of  the  oppressed.  Your  own  observations  tell  you 
that  these  things  are  not  the  fruits  of  the  Roman  Catholic 
system.  You  know  right  well  that  you  have  up  to  date 
produced  no  great  men — men  who  have  gone  down  in  his¬ 
tory  as  the  models  for  posterity  to  worship.  For  this  very 
reason  our  sympathy  is  aroused  for  you.  We  have  ob¬ 
served  the  conditions  in  Italy,  Portugal,  Cuba,  South  Amer¬ 
ica,  Mexico  and  the  Philippines,  where  the  people  have  been 
taught  by  your  system  for  centuries.  Behold  them  today. 
Take  a  long  look  at  them.  You  would  consider  it  a  great 
breach  of  etiquette  to  be  found  associated  with  them  if  they 
come  to  this  country. 

If  your  system  possesses  the  moral  uplift,  if  it  is  the 
great  civilizer,  if  it  has  that  which  makes  men  manly  men, 
why  has  it  not  left  the  fruits  of  its  holy  unction  upon  these 
nations  ?  ' 

Why,  my  Catholic  citizen,  has  every  nation  over 
which  the  Roman  Catholic  system  ruled  been  a  nation 
which  went  backward,  rather  than  marched  in  the  pro¬ 
cession  of  progressive  civilization?  We  have  the  right, 
you  have  the  right,  to  ask  this  question,  and  to  satisfy 
your  own  mind  why  it  has  withered  rather  than  caused 


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to  bloom  all  nations  over  which  it  has  held  the  balance 
of  power? 

2.  Another  phase  of  the  subject  bears  hard  upon 
our  sympathy  for  you.  Possibly  you  are  the  father 
of  children  for  whose  welfare  you  are  responsible. 
Think  of  it,  men ;  your  children  are  as  dear  to  you,  as 
any  parent’s  children;  they  are  just  as  worthy  of  the 
best  in  life  as  are  ours ;  they  have  just  as  much  ambi¬ 
tion  to  take  their  places  as  useful  citizens  as  any  chil¬ 
dren.  Can  you  remain  content  to  see  them  shackled 
with  weights  which  you  know  will  rob  them  of  those 
attributes  that  develop  into  real  true  greatness  and 
such  as  these  innocent  ones  are  robbed  of  in  order  that 
they  may  believe  in  purgatory  and  such  other  doctrines 
as  bring  great  gain  to  the  despotic  system  which  blights 
nations  and  blurs  visions  of  true  greatness.  You  do  not, 
you  can  not,  have  faith  in  a  system  which  must  appeal 
to  unsuspecting  childhood  for  recruits  to  maintain  it. 
You  know  as  well  as  we  know  that  your  system  cannot 
influence  one  in  a  million  adults  to  join  it.  You  also 
know  that  it  must  depend  upon  moulding  the  child  mind 
by  opening  the  clammy  jaws  of  indescribable  torment  to 
the  pliable  child  mind  and  thus  indelibly  stamp  abject 
fear  of  the  sizzling  abyss  of  torment  in  order  to  fit  that 
mind  for  the  reception  of  the  deceptive  doctrines  which 
are  to  follow. 

Your  system  dare  not  get  out  alongside  the  Baptists 
the  Presbyterians,  and  the  half-dozen  other  church  organi¬ 
zations,  and  reason  with  men  and  women  to  accept  the 
doctrines  of  your  System.  You  have  no  arguments  that 
you  dare  present  your  cause  to  intelligent,  sane,  thinking 
men  and  women.  The  vilifications  and  brick-bats  of  your 


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priests  are  not  the  arguments  you  would  use.  To  attract 
the  personal  character  of  those  who  do  not  believe  in 
your  system  is  not  your  argument.  It  belongs  to  the 
priestcraft  of  your  system  and  is  one  of  those  heavenly 
attributes  ( ?)  taught  only  to  priests  in  your  theological 
seminaries. 

There  may  have  been  a  time  when  you  thought  all 
this  was  right,  because  a  dear  mother  told  you  it  was 
what  the  holy  father  said.  But,  men,  you  are  living  in 
the  twentieth  century  now,  and  you  owe  posterity  a  debt 
you  cannot  pay  by  leading  it  into  the  errors  into  which 
you  have  fallen. 

An  unfettered  intellect,  an  unbridled  thought,  a  full 
and  untrammeled  aspiration,  and  the  liberty  to  reach  out 
after  Almighty  God  as  the  dictates  of  free  conscience 
may  suggest,  are  the  foundations  upon  which  nations  and 
individuals  attain  true  greatness.  The  inculcation  of 
these  principles  is  the  duty  of  every  American  Citizen, 
be  he  Protestant  or  Catholic.  To  help  you  to  attain 
unto  this  by  breaking  the  shackles  binding  you  in  the 
musty  atmosphere  of  medisevalism  is  our  aim. 


J 


ADDRESS  OF  WELCOME 

DELIVERED  BY 

D.  J.  Reynolds,  Esq.,  National  President 

American  Federation  of  Patriotic  Societies, 
Minneapolis,  Minn. 


Delivered  at  First  Annual  Convention  at  Congress  Hotel,  Chicago, 

j 

June  23,  1914. 


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The  timeless  impulse  of  the  world  is  human.  As  strove 
our  fathers  to  express  their  humanity  in  their  lives  and  in¬ 
stitutions,  so  strive  we.  And  as  no  small  part  of  their 
striving  was  to  break  the  fetters  that  hampered  their  free 
expression,  even  so  it  is  with  us.  Generation  after  genera¬ 
tion,  our  sires  and  forefathers  have  striven  to  free  our 
race  from  the  enslavement  of  body,  mind  and  soul. 

The  oldest  and  greatest  curse  which  has  pursued  human¬ 
ity  from  the  earliest  history  to  the  present  time  is  slavery 
in  its  various  aspects.  That  we  meet  here  today  openly, 
and  with  the  right  of  free  speech,  is  due  to  their  sacrifice 
and  struggles.  Each  generation  has  had  to  meet  the  same 
old  foes,  wearing  new  faces  at  times,  but  ever  with  the  same 
claim  of  authority  over  body,  mind  and  soul.  The  measure 
of  freedom  that  we  enjoy  today  has  been  dearly  purchased. 
The  thirsty  earth  has  drunk  the  best  blood  of  our  human¬ 
kind  as  payment  for  what  human  rights  we  have.  Ever 
since  Constantine  paganized  Christianity,  Christian  history 
has  been  written  in  the  blood  of  martyred  men  who  gave 
their  lives  for  truth,  that  truth  which  makes  men  free.  How 
highly,  then,  should  we  prize  so  dearly  bought  a  heritage. 
For  centuries  past,  the  arch  foe  of  liberty  has  worn  one 
face,  consistently.  It  is  a  Roman  face  and  shows  forth  the 
Roman  spirit.  It  is  the  Roman  eagle  of  the  empire,  usurping 
the  Christ  upon  the  cross.  The  beak  of  that  Roman  eagle  is 
red  with  the  blood  of  martyred  millions  who  dared  to  ques¬ 
tion  spiritual  enslavement.  That  eagle  maw  is  crammed 
with  the  wealth  wrung  from  the  needs  of  the  world’s 


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suffen.ig  poor.  That  eagle’s  lust  of  power  is  never  sated, 
for  it  beats  its  wings  over  all  lands  alike,  with  brutal  claim 
of  dominance,  because  of  the  cross  upon  which  it  falsely 
rests  its  claims.  Our  fathers  cowered  in  fear  before  the 
fierce  beating  of  those  cruel  wings.  At  times  they  gave 
their  all,  in  abject  obedience  to  this  relentless,  voracious 
power  whose  ghostly  claims  made  it  so  formidable,  for  it 
asserted  its  possession  of  the  keys  of  heaven  and  hell,  the 
power  to  bind  or  to  loose  for  eternity.  At  times  our  fathers 
met  and  discussed  this  monstrous  power  and  its  monstrous 
claims  that  held  them  bound  slaves  in  body,  mind  and  soul, 
but  it  was  by  stealth,  and  with  bated  breath  and  in  whispered 
tones,  for  if  this  power  should  learn  of  a  stir  for  any  degree 
of  freedom,  woe  was  his  who  spoke  the  word  or  listened 
to  it,  and  yet  in  increasing  numbers,  brave  men  dared  to 
speak  the  word  and  bear  the  penalty,  until  at  last  the  price 
was  paid  and  a  measure  of  liberty  won. 

Today  we  gather  for  the  self-same  purpose.  As  a  de¬ 
liberative  body,  we  are  here  to  sanely  discuss  the  proposi¬ 
tion  that  Romanism  and  free  American  institutions  cannot 
long  dwell  together  in  peace  upon  this  continent.  Approach¬ 
ing  our  assembly  in  this  spirit,  I  tremble  before  the  import¬ 
ance  of  our  act;  I  hesitate  before  the  duty  that  my  office 
lays  upon  me,  of  calling  you  and  welcoming  you  to  this  city, 
a  great  center  of  power  and  influence  in  the  gigantic  empire 
of  the  Middle  West,  for  the  purpose  of  our  meeting  and 
uttering  a  message  expressive  of  the  hope  of  this  gathering 
of  the  American  Federation  of  Patriotic  Societies.  Even  if 
the  cause  for  which  we  stand  were  not  so  great,  I  should 
still  feel  the  awe  of  speaking  for  the  ideals  of  the  progress¬ 
ive  manhood  of  our  great  American  citizenship  as  ex¬ 
pressed  by  this  organization.  But  I  take  courage  when  I 


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realize  what  is  in  your  hearts  and  the  hearts  of  all  liberty- 
loving  men  and  women  the  world  around.  You  do  not  de¬ 
pend  for  your  loyalty,  inspiration  and  courage  upon  my 
faltering  sentences.  In  fact,  it  is  your  greatness  of  heart 
and  exaltedness  of  spirit  that  makes  it  possible  for  me  to 
speak  at  all,  and  the  prayers  of  the  countless  souls  who 
look  to  us  to  safeguard  them  and  our  country  from  the 
dangers  threatened  to  our  free  institutions  by  an  insidious 
foe  who  would  also  bar  our  free  approach  to  the  God  of 
our  fathers,  hiding  him  behind  the  priestly  power  that  makes 
a  trade  of  religion  and  a  profit  out  of  men’s  spiritual  needs. 

But  while  we  have  not  gathered  here  to  quarrel  with 
any  man’s  religious  views,  we  would  deserve  the  censure 
of  every  drop  of  blood  shed  for  us  by  our  forefathers, 
should  we  fail  to  challenge  the  avowed  designs  of  the  Roman 
hierarchy  upon  America’s  free  institutions.  We  are  here  to 
challenge  her  for  gross  discrimination  in  her  underhanded 
political  machinations,  whereby  she  has  Catholicized  Amer¬ 
ican  battleships  and  government  training  schools  and  filled 
in  vastly  undue  proportion  the  strategic  official  positions 
in  our  cities,  municipalities,  states,  and  the  national  govern¬ 
ment  itself.  It  is  not  our  province  to  differentiate  between 
the  Roman  Catholic  Church  and  other  religious  denomina¬ 
tions,  only  as  we  are  compelled  to  recognize  her  as  the 
natural  ally,  tool  and  feeder  of  the  hierarchy  which  is  utiliz¬ 
ing  that  church  organization  to  subvert  and  destroy  our  fair 
institutions  of  free  and  equal  rights. 

We  come  in  the  spirit  of  the  great  soul  who  not  alone 
said,  but  practiced  in  its  full,  the  creed  of  “malice  toward 
none  and  charity  for  all.”  We  want  what  He  wanted:  the 
full,  free  sway  of  the  human  impulse  in  the  life  of  men. 
In  this,  our  great  campaign  of  education,  it  is  our  purpos'e  to 


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discover  the  lairs  of  our  foes  and  their  plans  of  aggression 
so  that  we  may  pour  the  light  of  publicity  upon  all  attempts 
to  thwart  and  pervert  the  spirit  and  institutions  of  liberty 
which  are  the  glorious  jewels  of  the  American  people.  To 
this  end,  let  us  promote,  in  every  way,  the  circulation  of  our 
patriotic  non-Romanized  papers  and  literature.  In  so  doing 
we  prove  not  alone  the  friends  of  those  who  are  our  friends, 
but  the  friends  of  our  foes,  for  we  seek  to  open  to  them  by 
their  very  defeat,  the  way  to  an  independent  manhood,  such 
as  cannot  be  theirs  under  the  dominance  of  the  old  system 
of  inherited  religious  opinions. 

Many  fairly  intelligent  Protestants  do  not  appreciate, 
as  yet,  what  this  organization  and  this  great  educational 
movement  means  to  them.  They  sleep  in  ignorance  of  the 
activity  of  a  foe  that  never  sleeps,  one  that  never  has  vol¬ 
untarily  surrendered  a  vantage  gained  and  never  has  re-, 
linquished  a  claim  once  made;  and  what  a  tremendous  and 
audacious  claim  Rome  makes  when  she  claims  authority 
over  the  temporal  and  spiritual  realms  of  life.  Where  she 
can,  she  openly  dominates ;  where  the  public  schools  ob¬ 
tain  and  intelligence  is  greater,  her  power  is  proportionately 
less.  She  is  a  past  master  at  secret  and  subtile  means  to 
gain  her  end.  She  never  sleeps,  but  “with  colors  fairer 
painted  to  her  foul  ends,”  works  her  mole-like  way  into  the 
seats  of  power  and  rules  under  the  cover  of  some  fair  ap¬ 
pearing  guise,  and  all  this  while  Protestantism  sweetly 
sleeps. 

As  an  organization,  we  have  voluntarily  assumed  the 
patriotic  duties  thus  neglected  and  are  ready  to  bear  the 
dangers  and  odium  of  a  combat  with  a  secret  foe,  that  we 
may  save  our  country’s  sacred  institutions  of  liberty  from 
the  foe,  who  is  eager,  beyond  measure,  to  destroy  them. 


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When  Goethe  said,  “He  only  has  a  right  to  liberty  and 
existence  who  daily  conquers  them  anew,”  he  expressed  in 
another  way  that  “Eternal  vigilance  is  the  price  of  liberty.” 
But  how  shall  we  keep  vigilant?  We  are  so  occupied  with 
the  cares  of  life  and  of  pleasure  as  to  give  us  very  little 
time  to  think  of  large  problems  and  none  to  watch  our  own 
interests  and  welfare  in  the  warring  forces  of  society.  Such 
liberty  as  has  been  achieved  for  us  has  been  secured  by 
the  efforts  of  those  who  have  united  voluntarily  to  do,  as 
organizations,  what  they  could  not  do  independently.  When 
a  cause  is  won,  then  many  are  praiseful  for  that  which  they 
never  supported  by  word  or  deed.  Even  so,  that  element  of 
Protestantism  that,  through  supineness  or  fear,  does  not  take 
active  part  with  us  will  one  day  arise  to  call  us  “blessed,” 
as  the  saviours  of  their  liberty,  but  until  then,  we  are  on 
duty  as  volunteer  guards  of  the  world’s  most  choice  treas¬ 
ures,  and  stand  over  against  an  organized  hierarchy,  the 
power  of  which  would  dismay  us  were  it  not  for  the  knowl¬ 
edge  of  the  righteousness  of  our  cause  and  the  power  of 
truth  to  conquer  evil.  The  Church  of  Rome,  the  tool  of  the 
hierarchy,  the  arch  foe  of  political  and  religious  liberty,  has 
always  been  organized.  Society  has  succeeded  society  in  the 
hour  of  her  need.  She  met  the  Reformation  with  the  So¬ 
ciety  of  Jesus,  the  Jesuits,  a  child  worthy  of  such  a  mother, 
a  militant  organization  that  is  hated  now  as  intensely  by 
all  intelligent  people  as  it  was  then,  for  the  Jesuit  has  ever 
been  redoubtable  because  unscrupulous,  a  foe  of  liberty, 
dealing  his  assassin  blows  in  the  dark. 

And  let  me  say  right  here,  in  the  spirit  of  kindness, 
deliberation,  fair-mindedness  and  candor,  that  the  most 
colossal  fraud  ever  perpetrated  upon  the  human  race,  in  all 
recorded  history,  was  when  the  world  was  “gold-bricked” 


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by  the  working  off  of  that  old  “mother  of  harlots,”  the 
Roman  Catholic  system,  a  political  grafting  machine,  as 
Christianity.  In  this  statement  I  know  I  am  voicing  the 
sentiments  of  the  intelligent  elements  of  the  world.  But 
ih°  most  stupenduous,  the  most  pitiful  blunder  ever  made 
since  God  permitted  man  to  set  his  foot  upon  this  globe  was 
when  a  considerable  portion  of  the  human  race  accepted 
that  indulgence  vending  system,  making  merchandise  out 
of  the  spiritual  needs  of  poor,  suffering  humanity,  as  rep¬ 
resenting  the  meek  and  lowly  Saviour,  Jesus  Christ,  upon 
this  earth.  Great  God!  If  we  could  only  reach  and  unde¬ 
ceive  these  poor  down-trodden,  priest-ridden  people  and 
make  them  understand  that  we  are  their  real  friends !  It  is 
admittedly  a  hard  case,  for  there  is  no  man  so  blind  as  the 
one  who  will  not  see,  and  that  is  the  kind  of  blindness  Rome 
inflicts  upon  her  victims.  This  is  the  proposition  now  be¬ 
fore  us,  and  we  believe,  to  which  the  free  institutions  of  the 
world  are  fairly  committed  to  stand  or  fall.  To  meet  the 
crisis  caused  by  the  American  spirit,  which  by  virtue  of 
its  ideals,  causes  the  Roman  hierarchy  to  lose  its  power  over 
its  credulous  and  devoted  dupes  and  followers,  the  rulers  of 
that  church  have  called  into  existence  and  are  promoting 
a  secret  order  called,  “The  Knights  of  Columbus,”  whose 
sworn  duty  it  is  to  carry  forward,  in  whatever  manner  indi¬ 
cated  by  the  hierarchy,  the  propagation  of  the  power  of 
Rome.  Evidently,  this  new  and  militant  body  must  exist, 
to  extend  Rome’s  power,  because  the  Church  itself,  in 
America,  in  the  exercise  of  its  spiritual  functions,  has  never 
been  threatened.  Does  Rome  intend  to  proclaim  a  temporal 
power  here,  that  she  needs  an  armed  force  to  establish  it? 
Such  would  seem  to  be  the  logical  conclusion  from  the 
facts.  If  such  danger  threatens,  who  is  to  thwart  it,  unless 


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it  be  a  body  of  men  organized  to  stand  together  in  fraternal 
touch  to  withstand  all  encroachment  upon  our  civil  and  re¬ 
ligious  liberty?  But  our  brief  purpose  and  greatest  power 
is  not  to  be  found  in  defensive  measures.  We,  too,  in  a 
way,  must  be  a  militant  body,  but  our  weapons  are  not  those 
of  carnal  warfare,  but  those  forged  by  the  spirit  of  liberty 
and  brotherly  love  which  win  by  enlightenment  and  conquer 
to  make  men  glad.  In  fact,  it  is  this  spirit  that  makes  Ro¬ 
manism  ever  upon  the  defensive.  It  may  well  despise  the 
attacks  of  sects  and  even  our  onslaught,  unless  we  use  this 
weapon  forged  to  our  hand.  The  ramparts  of  Rome  cannot 
be  raised  high  enough  to  shut  out  the  spirit  of  an  age.  This 
is  a  reading,  thinking,  progressive  age  and  all  of  the  com¬ 
bined  powers  of  hell  and  Romanism  cannot  make  it  other¬ 
wise.  The  Roman  Catholic  hierarchy,  creation  of  the  Dark 
Ages,  cannot  stand  before  the  light.  In  this  country  in  par¬ 
ticular,  it  finds  it  hard  to  hold  its  own  immovably,  because 
the  very  air  of  our  loved  America  breathes  freedom,  lib¬ 
erty,  democracy,  while  the  Roman  Church,  the  greatest 
promoter  of  ignorance  and  superstition,  is  the  very  antithesis 
of  these.  It  is  because  this  is  the  atmosphere  of  the  public 
school  that  Rome  establishes  the  parochial  school  where  the 
spirit  of  liberty  may  be  smothered  and  her  tenets  of  au¬ 
thority  maintained.  She  denies  her  children  the  public 
school  because  they  would  learn  to  think.  She  has  in  every 
age  and  every  country,  always  denied,  as  she  is  doing  today, 
her  people  the  means  of  enlightenment,  as  far  as  possible, 
for  this  same  reason.  Rome’s  idea  of  religious  liberty, 
where  she  dominates,  is  liberty  to  worship  as  she  directs  or 
go  to  the  torture.  The  greatest  service  which  free  educa¬ 
tion  has  rendered  man  has  been  to  equip  him  for  private 
thinking.  But  the  greatest  achievement  of  the  hierarchy, 


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in  America,  is  her  boasted  subversion  of  the  public  press. 
The  school  gives  man  private  opinions.  As  a  result  of 
them  he  has  private  property  and  private  rights.  Thomas 
Jefferson  once  uttered  a  great  truth  when  he  said  that 
“when  God  gave  man  life  he  gave  him  liberty.”  This  is  what 
Rome  dreads,  for  she  wants  him  to  consider  that  he  derives 
all  he  has  from  her  and  holds  it  with  her  permission. 

What  a  compliment  Rome  pays  to  the  power  of  private 
thinking !  To  forbid  discussion  is  to  recommend  ignorance, 
for  not  to  discuss  is  not  to  fully  comprehend,  and  there¬ 
fore  not  to  understand,  so  erroneous  ideas  will  be  held.  We 
see  here  why  the  development  of  intellect  among  their 
laity  is  commended  by  Rome.  Just  as  a  burglar  tries  to 
disarm  his  victim  before  robbing  him,  or  just  as  soldiers 
must  give  up  their  arms  before  they  become  prisoners,  the 
first  thing  a  priest  does  is  to  induce  his  victim  to  give  up 
his  independence  of  thought.  Take  his  advice  and  part 
with  your  birthright,  your  intelligence,  your  natural  de¬ 
fensive  weapon  and  you  are  forever  after  his  prisoner  and 
his  slave.  Now,  this  is  the  exact  condition  of  millions  of 
our  fellow  citizens.  Bad  enough  it  is  to  have  life  and 
lamb  at  the  mercy  of  a  crowned  tyrant,  or  of  a  lawless  mob, 
but  not  half  so  bad  as  to  have  one’s  inmost  soul  and  con¬ 
science  under  the  absolute  sway  of  a  priest  or  “Prince  of 
the  Blood”  who  has  usurped  the  place  of  the  Most  High 
and  dared  to  wield  on  earth  the  powers  that  are  exclusively 
Divine. 

I  do  not  denounce  living  priests.  They  are  but  creatures 
of  circumstance  and  legitimate  children  of  a  Mother  whose 
abominations  have  filled  Christendom  with  misery,  crime, 
pollution  and  cruelty.  They  are  only  what  they  were  made, 
the  logical  sequence  of  the  teachings  of  such  a  system 


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.and  what  they  have  been  taught  to  regard  as  their  divine 
calling.  The  wonder  is  that  they  behave  as  well  as  they 
do  and  are  not  even  more  corrupted  by  the  terrible  tempta¬ 
tions  of  their  position :  but  I  do  denounce  him  or  them 
who  first  set  up  this  hell-born  house  of  bondage  and  who 
first  forged  these  fetters  for  the  human  soul.  '  But  I  keep 
my  deepest  abhorrence  and  my  strongest  denunciations  for 
that  man — whoever  it  was — who  first  dared  on  earth  to 
assume  the  functions  of  godhead  and  to  make  false  pre¬ 
tense  of  passing  on  to  his  followers  the  mighty  powers  for 
evil  which  he  falsely  claimed  as  his  own.  Let  a  grateful 
Christendom,  all  stained  with  bloodshed,  her  victims  roasted 
and  charred  in  flames  made  holy  by  the  torch  of  priests, 
her  victories  over  benighted  savage,  mingling  the  waters  of 
holy  baptism  with  the  purple  life-blood  of  murdered  prose¬ 
lytes  ;  let  Christendom  with  its  darkness,  fire  and  chains, 
go  back  on  bended  knees  to  thank  her  unknown  founder 
for  having  blessed  her  with  such  a  begetting.  Let  her  pride 
herself  on  being  the  possessor  of  the  secret  by  which  she 
has  made  kings  and  emperors  to  lick  the  dust,  has  trampled 
on  the  rights  of  man  and  offered  holocausts  of  loving  hearts 
in  her  zeal  for  the  Church.  And  yet  we  might  possibly 
tolerate  all  of  the  arrogance  of  Romanism  and  her  cruel 
and  unsavory  record  if  she  confined  her  activities  to  the 
[Spiritual  side  of  life  and  this  for  only  willing  dupes  and 
devotees,  but  she  can  be  content  with  nothing  less  than  uni¬ 
versal  dominance  in  all  phases  of  intellectual,  political  and 
spiritual  life.  We  are  here,  my  fellow  citizens,  to  devise 
means  and  ways  whereby  we  may  thwart  this  never  dis¬ 
avowed  purpose,  and  ever  determinedly  pursued  goal  of 
Romanism. 

We  know  of  only  two  ways  of  conquering:  The  old 


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way  was  destructive,  by  weakening,  exhausting  and  anni¬ 
hilating  the  opposing  forces ;  the  new  and  better  way,  the 
Protestant  way,  is  constructive,  to  make  one’s  self  in  every 
way  superior.  It  is  our  duty  to  so  wisely  plan  that  we  may 
show  the  world  the  value  of  the  new  thought,  the  new  and 
better  way  in  the  new  day  of  the  free  man,  and  thus  keep 
our  fellows  with  their  faces  to  the  progressive  future  in¬ 
stead  of  turning  to  the  reactionary  past  for  direction.  But 
it  is  not  enough  to  hold  the  truth  nor  to  proclaim  it,  it  must 
be  defended  as  well.  This  is  where  we  as  the  American 
Federation,  find  our  special  mission  and  our  greatest  soli¬ 
darity.  We  may  not  always  agree  upon  the  minutiae  of 
what  we  call  the  truth,  but  we  can  agree  and  stand  upon 
common  ground  in  our  resistance  to  the  foe  that  threatens 
our  religious  and  political  liberty.  We  are  united  by  the 
spirit  of  freedom,  the  one  successful  resistant  to  Rome’s 
aggressive  forces.  We  are  the  minute  men  of  the  forces 
of  freedom.  It  is  ours  to  watch  the  foe  and  meet  priestly 
machinations  with  the  ready  front  of  exposure  and  de¬ 
fense.  For  many  of  our  Catholic  fellow-citizens  we  have 
nothing  but  love  and  respect.  They  are  often  good  people 
in  spite  of  their  religion,  especially  in  countries  like  this, 
where  they  have  been  raised  under  the  refining  influence 
of  Protestantism.  We  are  sorry  to  see  them  used  by  the 
priestly  instruments  of  a  foreign  power  to  try  to  establish 
principles  that  are  foreign  to  the  American  spirit,  but  we 
realize  that  they  are  the  victims  of  the  system  to  which  they 
adhere,  while  honestly  trying  to  do  conscientiously  the  will 
of  a  foreign  master.  Our  defense  is  for  the  institutions  of 
our  country — institutions  that  have  made  her  the  light  and 
the  hope  of  the  oppressed  of  the  world.  It  is  the  purpose 
of  our  organization  to  be  a  powerful  factor  in  this  great 


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world  movement  to  defend  the  rights  of  men  to  the  free 
disposal  and  the  unfoldment  of  their  own  lives;  to  pro¬ 
tect  the  free  public  schools  that  our  fathers  in  their  wisdom 
founded  to  be  the  bulwark  of  the  state  by  the  creation  of 
intelligence.  We  stand  for  the  free  and  pure  ballot  whereby 
free  men  express  their  convictions  as  to  governmental  ques¬ 
tions  without  dictation  of  creed  or  priest.  We  stand  for  the 
non-interference  of  church  with  state  and  pledge  our  power 
to  secure  this  end.  And  lastly  and  greatest  of  all,  we  stand 
for  that  freedom  of  worship  that  is  to  be  found  in  a  free 
Bible,  whereby  every  man  may  satisfy  his  own  spiritual 
nature  with  a  free  conscience.  This  is  the  true  glory  of 
our  manhood :  the  free  man  walking  with  God  in  the  daily 
use  of  his  powers  for  the  benefit  of  humanity  and  the 
freedom  of  the  home  from  priestly  dominance. 

For  the  protection  of  these  things  and  to  promote  them 
we  have  volunteered  and  having  once  enlisted  there  is  for 
us  no  turning  back.  Under  God  the  political,  social  and 
religious  future  is  the  free  man.  May  his  divine  guidance 
imbue  the  deliberations  of  this  great  patriotic  assembly 
with  the  spirit  of  wisdom  and  brotherly  love. 


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